Word: absentmindedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hi Bill! How's things? Saving this place? Yeah, I don't eat much at noon. Look out--sorry...Well, why the hell don't you look where you're going? Oh...Jees, look at my sleeve. Chocolate milk all over it. Sure, I do. The litle shrimp sits in...
Nikita Balieff is bored with one thing-"The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Their famed mechanical march and the tune that went with it has been played, imitated, repeated over most of the civilized world. The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the...
It was really surprising that he had continued his fruitless efforts as long as he had, except that he was an Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson...
From Ohio, where he had been born, the scene of his early life, his first experiments and his days as a telegraph operator, Mr. Edison removed to Newark, N.J., in 1873; then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old...
Lord Robert has been described as "silent, quiet, destitute of elegance, apparently absentminded, cold, courteous.'" A London newspaper said of him, that, being a Cecil, "he was denied by racial antecedents all capacity to excite himself." Lord Robert is a lawyer, and is as well versed in ecclesiastical as...