TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS REWARD At the great base ball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to bring it back.
While I've engaged in this sort of thing before, this year I'd like to make predictions of what President Obama will say tomorrow night (as opposed to what I would like him to say).
I felt singled-out, as if they'd been working hard their whole lives while I was engaged in things of folly, a belle epoque pastime that disqualified me from the grown-up "So, what do you do?" conversation.
He recorded in his journal: "It is a singular circumstance that, while I am engaged in preparing for the press the letters of General Washington which he wrote at Cambridge after taking command of the American army, I should occupy the same rooms that he did at that time".
She had a copy of Elle, and paged through it while I tried to engage her.
While I do not engage in overtly dangerous behaviors (e.g., texting and driving), I must admit my rude ones -- like taking that long call on a commuter train, trying to hide behind a cupped hand to keep from disturbing other people.
"Last week, while I was otherwise engaged," she said, pausing as a knowing chuckle came forth from her audience.
Update: It turns out that I missed the background to this story while I was otherwise engaged (ie working on the paper).
Namdakov admits that he is proud of the sculpture, adding that it was a difficult process: Can you envision doing such a project in New York City? "I thought for a long time on the sculpture composition [for the London project] while I was not engaged in choosing the place for it.
Typically, infants' movements cover an entire room, all the while engaged in different activities and looking at many different things.
