James Thurber

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James Thurber

• Thurberisms

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December 8, 1894 November 2, 1961
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Thurberisms

• It is better to know some of the questions than
  all of the answers.
• Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor
  towards the future with feat, but look around
  with awareness.
• You can fool too many of the people too much of
  the time.
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• The dog has seldom been successful in pulling
  man up to its level of sagacity, but man has
  frequently dragged the dog down to his.
• Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you
  answer the phone?
• Early to rise and early to bed makes a male
  healthy and wealthy and dead.
• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
• All men should strive to learn before they die,
  what they are running from, and to, and why.

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Vocabulary forThe Secret Life of Walter
MittyBy James Thurber
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• coreopsis (271)
• Daisy-like flowers

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• 2. disdainful (271)
• expressing disgust

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• 3. satire (271)
• a literary work that ridicules or pokes fun at a
  situation

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• 4. relished (271)
• enjoyed to enjoy or to please 

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• 5. inconsistency (271)
• not staying the same

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• buffeted (271)
• beaten back

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• rakishly (272)
• having a trim neat appearance 

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• grossly (273)
• very wrong immediately obvious
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• lurched (273)
• to suddenly roll, pitch, or sway to one side

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• 10. tertiary (273)
• a third time

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• craven (274)
• cowardly, afraid

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• 12. grave (274)
• requiring serious thought

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• bicarbonate (275)
• an acid salt of carbonic acid used to settle
  upset stomachs an antacid, like Alka-seltzer 

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• 14. pandemonium (275)
• wild disorder, noise or confusion

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• 15. bedlam (275)
• any noisy, confused place or situation noise
  and confusion uproar

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• 16. cur (275)
• a person who is mean, contemptible or
  worthless, cowardly

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• cannonading (276)
• a continuous firing of artillery

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• barrage (276)
• a curtain of artillery fire laid down to keep
  enemy forces from moving

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• derisive (277)
• ridiculing, making fun of

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• inscrutable (277)
• mysterious that which cannot be understood

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