Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basket turns; slowly but steadily, with the measured pace of an ancient pendulum. Half way round to the right, then, back a full turn to the left, a never ceasing motion. Visitors that it is bound to slow up and finally watch it with fascination, expecting stop, but the basket continues to swing, just as it has done for the last six months...
...that the concert is expected to be perfectly knock-out, and I am enclosing two tickets with the ardent hope that you may be able to come over and watch Radcliffe do its stuff. (Howzat for diplomacy...
Sunday afternoon I went for a walk. To which succinct statement of pure and unadulterated fact you may reply, "What of it?"--or if you are a member of the Watch and Ward Society--"What in it?" Well, I'll permit you, but on one condition: that you tell me just why I met so many people with cameras and kodaks and the urge to use them. Before I had gone two blocks I felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped...
Skepticism as to the veracity of the story was discredited about six o'clock, when W. J. Buck '28 and H. C. Macomber '28 found unmistakable evidences that their room had been ransacked. Buck's watch was missing and Macomber's bureau drawers and closet were in a state of chaos...
...present instance, all the decent, law-abiding element have the wool pulled over their eyes by some process such at the Watch and Ward game. And so the farce goes...