Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held. Last May, when the world was in an uproar over Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's flight, Helen Keller had been informed of the incredible fact with frenzied nudges, incoherent pummelings. Now she was able to picture to herself the plane caroming through the darkness above the sea. Her sentient fingers touched the tiny mountain range that led across her page. Now he was over the green meadows of Ireland. Helen Keller smiled. When he landed, she could imagine herself hearing those cheers in a Paris twilight...
...House of Women. Louis Bromfield has won repute as a novelist, which his disciples hope will not be damned by faint plays. Novelist became dramatist last week with a theatricalization of his story The Green Bay Tree. This transference was achieved under the sentient auspices of Arthur Hopkins,* and brought to life upon the stage by such luminaries as Elsie Ferguson and Nance O'Neil. The whole was considerably smaller than the sum of the parts; the general verdict blamed the play...
...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...
...Like sentient creatures, the Earth has its eyes in it upper† part, eyes which, like an owl's see best by night: telescopes. That is why the press contained more news of Mars last week than it did two and one half years ago when Mars, though eight million miles nearer Earth than last week, was more visible from Earth's southern hemisphere. There are no major telescopes in the southern hemisphere. With hollow clankings of their metallic optic muscles, the great, unblinking eyes slowly scoured the heavens, coming to focus on a bright disc, 1/76th...
Which inspires me to add this final verse of Somebody Else who took the Owl for the haven of supper clubs and sentient souffies. I think last night, and who really doesn't much care whether...