Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts if for no other reason than a better understanding of the enigmatic Sargent. The more easily satisfied and perhaps more beotian of the student body dismiss the work as no good or at least negatively attractive and think no more about...
...think it's a weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...
Homecoming. If you were told that this picture tells of the return of two soldiers, one married and one unmarried, and how the unmarried one gets home first and goes up the winding stairs to the door which the wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern...
Pennsy officials last week anticipated no such alarming event. Many a railroad sends its passengers over leased lines.* Pennsy would not think of endangering its lease. And the benevolent I. C. C. at Washington would intervene to avert transportational disaster...
...think you're making a big mistake," I told him. "I think the snow is worth more than that ear. You'd be a fool not to sell. After all, you'd have your other...