Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the War, it was an unheard of thing for a Member of the Government to write for the newspapers, although Gladstone once wrote an article for a U. S. newspaper designed to "put before a vast body of working people a loftier ideal of life." For this he received...
...should look upon as well as hear the fair Minnie Symperson, played by Rosamond Whiteside. No radio entertainment will ever compensate for her. Antoinette Perry as a "lady in distress," and Jay Fassett as Belvawney aid J. M. Kerrigan to make the most of a good thing...
...Memorial for W. H. Hudson* (TIME, June 1), fortified with a box of assorted sandwiches and mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look at it. ... Did you ever see such a thing in the name of art? . . . It has a head like a criminal and its arms . . . monstrosity . . . frighten the sparrows. ..."So the sweet and often feeble voice of old Somerville Hague trickled like lymph through the June day. At 8 in the morning he began. At 8 in the evening, feeling that...
...dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist-or something equivalent-to seek you out. After years of waiting, you become very, very lonely...
...scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked up in some book or read in the newspapers. One is repeatedly told that the badinage is entirely "point-device." Writer Snaith patches his wretched English with motley tatters of French. But the thrill's the thing; shut your eyes and you will surely get it. However splintery, the how drawn is one of the longest ever dragged from the woods...