Word: heed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposedly incapable of quantitative versification: i. e., the scansion of English verse is not dependent on "long" or "short" syllables since there is no such formal distinction between syllables in English. Sensitive ears, like those of Laureate Bridges, however, permit a treatment of English as Virgil treated Latin, with heed to both "long" and "short" syllables. When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly. The spelling, sometimes apparently archaic, sometimes apparently futuristic, is a guide...
...spirit stayed on. Lying shrouded in her bier, she blinked an eye owlishly when he bent to kiss her hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...that the Harvard president was worthy of the honor. When he started speaking, every ear was attentive. Speaking extemporaneously, scorning alike the notes and the patent platitudes which had more than once preceded him, he talked on a level which was as lofty as the minds who paid him heed. These men who sat before him he praised as 'beacons scattered throughout the world, shining towards each other, reflecting each others lights, far above the disputes and petty wrangles of this world...
First Day. Lady Drummond Hay rose first the next morning and went shouting through the passageways: "I was first up of all. I'm hungry. You'd better get up or you'll miss breakfast." Passengers Leeds, Richards, paid no heed, slept until luncheon. Sir Hubert Wilkins, always taciturn, apologized for his large breakfast appetite, settled down to read a book...
...pedagogs did not heed this economic plea. After parents and students were put out of the room, the Board voted to dismiss the Dean, elected one David Wilson from Hampden Sidney College, Va. At most colleges the problem of cigaret smoking between classes is solved without economic and moral issues, without even any action by the college. Signs warn: "NO SMOKING IN THIS BUILDING-Border of the board of underwriters...