putterings, 609, 620, 628, 630-632
that we meant nothing by it, it is just our way
our own round-about, puttering route, bumping over corduroy roads of ₁
bills of lading, puttering around with ₂ italics,
by the way, aren’t mine, but those of some lexicographer ₃
puttering with the potential — concrete — mud ₄
puttering with, wiping off a microscopic particle of dust here,
touching it up with an oiled rag there ₅
fast and stylish, but she did some puttering and that cost her a chance.
conditions were anything but good for bird work.
The wind blew a half gale, leaving almost no scent ₆
sources :
- ex Florida Pier, “On Resembling Oneself,”
one of some 165 of her “The Gentler View” essays that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in the years 1908-13, this from February 12, 1910 / more - ex Paul Peters (pseudonym of Harbor Allen), “Dockwallopers”
in The American Mercury : 20:79 (July 1930) : 319-326 (321) / more - from result snippets, at Patrick F. McManus, “Puttering”
in Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink (1991) : 95-98 / more - from “Concrete : Where Do We Go from Here?”
in Progressive Architecture (October 1966) : 173 / more“Concrete is mud. I work with concrete, not against it. I like mud.”
Paul Rudolph - ex “The Shame of the Uniform,” by Captain M. B. Stewart, U.S. Army.
in Harper’s Weekly (May 24, 1913) : 12-13 / more - “Junior Stake Won by Air Pilot in Field Trials.” Henry R. Ilsley.
Special to The New York Times. (Tuesday, April 16, 1929) : 27 / more
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