Word: thinke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously awed by the "array of talent" which turned out on Tuesday to voice disapproval of the measure, Foley consoled himself with the enthusiastic support of his constituents. He said that "100 telephone calls make me think I'm right and that Cambridge is satisfied with the proposal...
...charge of the Very Reverend Francis Doland, S. J., president of Holy Cross College that "Catholic institutions would have to fold up and go out of business," if the bill were enacted Foley hinted that it was no business of colleges outside of Cambridge. "I don't think that state institutions would close up, anyway...
...would be amazed, as we are, at the weird descriptions of this instrument landing system that appear in our clippings. You'd never think that radio could do such wonderful things...
When Allen Bernard, alias "Carlin." arrived at Rockland, he introduced a friend he had brought with him as his sister, and faked a serious mental depression. "Doctor," his helpful "sister" pleaded, "Allen has tried to take his own life and I think he ought to be treated here for a while." Half an hour later, greatly to his surprise, he was bedded in a ward full of madmen...
...saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife picked up every crazy fad that came along. One night she woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that...