Word: wistfulness
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Ruby, oh Ruby. She sits cross-legged on a rug in her room and watches the wallpaper slide. In her mind are the sorts of things dreamt by sea creatures. But the things she hears! Music that hasn't been made with such an air of vintage and heartfelt wist since America came down from the frantic high of the '60s and the outrageous trip of the '70s. No more Lucies in the skies, no more fields of strawberries; only Ruby walking alone through her wallpaper tracks with the ghosts of a faded age, shaking hands with Kinks, Beatles...
...skip for a moment to the affairs that really matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when...
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...drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...
...Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" So said Jesus Christ to his mother, Mary. Bruce Barton, famed advertising agent, President of the advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, puts business in italics. This is the contribution to theology made in a recent book* of his, in which Agent Barton genuflects before a Saviour who was, in his opinion, the Founder of Modern Business. Agent Barton has small regard for the painters who have shown Christ as "a frail man, undermuscled, with a soft face-a woman's face, covered by a beard...