Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mindful of his class. He droned like a summer bee, interrupting the hum every minute with a thunderous blast from a rheumy nose. Suddenly he ceased droning: "And what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked you what ideas you had on the method of Thucydides as compared to that of Herodotus...
...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...
...most guests Author Marlowe shows astonishing tolerance. (After a charity ball in London, which kept him on his feet 19 hours at a halfpenny an hour, he could still spare a sympathetic thought for the hangovers in store for the revelers.) Main bane of waiters, says Marlowe, is tipping. On this practice he lays most of the blame for the miserable working conditions of the profession generally. Do waiters judge a man's character by the size of his tip? Says Waiter Marlowe: They...
...During the past week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects, but it is most interesting to note that on one point their thought is closely parallel...
...Government section of the Reading Room--" An exquisite blonde of Junoesque preparations, didn't you think," just about summed up the English tables, while the Library official who conducted the four contented himself with one of the greatest understatements of the new year. "Um rather an attractive girl, I thought." he said...