Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophic detachment, Vag stumbles on the reason why. This is enforced, simulated gaiety. It is not the youthful exuberance which rightfully follows a Yale game. It is not the gay abandon of a May evening's hilarity in the Yard or Square. That exuberance and abandon are always present in the blood. But this gaiety is one scientifically, commercially, injected into the veins with a syringe. There is no trace of the real Christmas at this party. Vag and girl leave abruptly...
...unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer. When Vag hears of lents, it has just got to be raining. To some, however, tents may always mean armies or something...
This, it seems evident, is one of the reasons why so many people are disappointed every time a novel is dramatized or made into a movie. The pictures aren't the same as you or Vag bad imagined. And it's disconcerting. But at least one man Vag knows has made a hobby of finding out just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures...
...this afternoon at two o'clock, Vag will climb to Emerson 211 to hear Mr. F. W. C. Hersey give his famed illustrated lecture on "The Wessex of Thomas Hardy's Novels...
...Vag sang a short solo. Woody stopped and looked around towards the offender. There was no mistaking him this time. The girls giggled. Oh Vag, what has become of thee...