Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betimes being vexed mightily by hammering and sawing noises below; and was much concerned lest it be those scoundrels meddling with the bell again. But soon did learn it be only workman replacing plaster in the Sanders Theatre. But Lord! I hope they do not come up to the Tower...
Thence to the Tower to read "The Last Puritan" which is probably exceedingly good; but my mind soon did wonder of other things. If truth be only to see things as they are-which be its business I am told-and hath no care for how things ought to be, then the poet doth err: Truth is ugly; common; dust. It be no pursuit for one who hath in his heart the improvement of man. Indeed, if this be true, what doth one gain to seek the truth if it doth not lead to more than the impassive real. Better...
...since the Conants' tea party has there been such confusion in the Tower. And then, it may be recalled, Alice and her friends were merely preparing to go to a party and not, as seems to be the case here, having a party all of their own. But listen a bit for yourselves. Dodo, very serious, is making the opening dinner speech...
...said, in the Tower in wine he was drowned...
...brother were killed in the Tower...