Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George W. Alger in the April Atlantic Monthly, is responsible for most of the present lawlessness in the United States, and unless turned toward a cultural ideal, will be the destroyer of democracy. "Except for a relatively small group," he says, "our souls sit on the bleachers and watch a game played no longer...
...possible for a man to indulge in a bit of dicing, cock-fighting or rum-swigging without having the local gendarmerie about his ears and the stink of the Watch and Ward Society's hired liars in his nose...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...exhibition. As has been the way wherever Independents are hung, there are exhibited types of the bizarre, the raffish, the grisly. Prominent in the Paris exhibit was a canvas by Gerald Murphy, Boston artist, which took first prize for the most unusual work. This, a "mechanist" depiction of a watch, appeared to the uninitiated to be a nightmare of wheels, ratchets, gagets, dials, cogs, cotters, springs. Students of modern Art, however, criticized it because it revealed too much preoccupation with the actual mechanism of a watch, instead of considering the entrails of a timepiece merely as so much abstract machinery...
What does the Harvard man read? There are three men about the Square who can answer with authority; for it is the newsdealer's part to watch the diminishing of his stacks and thence to prophesy the next month's demand for magazines quiet or gaudy. So the men whose shops are in sight of the Rotunda speak both with authority and with figures...