Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clever and energetic as any person I ever met in the world. The only ones who really want her to leave here are a bunch of fellows who know they can't get everything that's loose, while she is out there in the outer office, keeping watch...
...elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing when the difficulties of writing are apparent. To any writer, to many an intelligent fiction reader, Author Forster...
When the Yale Building takes the field against Harvard this afternoon, Horween's men will have to be on the watch for a varied program of events. Johnny Hoben will probably use a straight line-Lucking style attack with passes inter posed as the situation suggests. Straight football seems to agree with Elis and disagree with their opponents. At least the scenes in the Bowl this season have indicated such. Jones however has groomed his men for the last two weeks with a bag of tricks and no one can say when they with be put into...
...good pieces, among the best being "Maybe," "Clap Yo' Hads, "Do-Do-Do," "Fidgety Feet," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Frank Crumit as the leading man and Julia--Sanderson, playing the corresponding part in the opposite sex, evidently chosen for their truly excellent voices in casting them for the roles of Jimmie Winters, the much-married hero, and Kay, the bootlegging sister of a bootlegging English duke...
...least, if the Harvard man is indifferent, there are occasions at which he doesn't show it. Sometime just watch who seems to be indifferent, (whether he is or not, is of no account) attend a cricket game for example and ask yourself the question...