Word: perched
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...orchestra of the crowded Madrid theatre which madly cheered Don Jose, sat Spain's reputed richest man, Count Romanones, quiet, alert, ready to jump with his millions to the side on which Victory should perch...
...when I could throw all cares aside and go some place in a little flat-bottomed boat. And there in that boat I could sit under a big sunbonnet, with a little, old fishing pole, and I could sit all day and fish for sunfish and perch...
...John Keats' Endymion: "calm, settled, imperturbable driveling idiocy." Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This...
Currier & Ives, famed poster lithographers (TIME, Nov. 25), printed a cartoon of Lincoln, being ridden on a rail to a lunatic asylum (the White House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall...