Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thing-Man." "He was not an idea-man but a thing-man. . . . He was a man of hands; not without brains, but with hand and brain moving together. He did not amuse himself with thought. He used thought only as a mode of action. He moved through this world like a thinking hand...
...miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
...great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked him sharply, 'There is no such thing as a jinx.' An Albany newspaper said, 'There is a line worth writing in the copybooks . . . Only the sagbacks blame the jinx...
...fact, he owes-the whole thing to Napoleon Bonaparte. For while he was wrestling with the problem he felt repeatedly that somewhere he had seen a similar play defeated. He thought over all the games he had over seen and concluded that he must have been mistaken, yet the notion kept recurring that he had seen or read the correct solution to the question. Whether if was in a class in modern history or in what manner the missing link of memory was furnished it is hard to tell, but here is the dialogue which suggested...
...reader scarcely understands why Juliet could not fit herself to the spiritual confinements of either her gentle or her plebeian heritage. She may have fallen between two stools, or made her choice, conscious that she was neither fish nor flesh. And this of course is the most real thing in the book. The balance of influence and choice is so nice that it is impossible to determine whether Juliet's problem was solved by decision or necessity...