Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the U. S. mails, last week, went a fat letter. It was addressed to President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University and signed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. It contained Air. Mellon's theory of foreign debt settlements and a systematic rebuke to the academicians of Princeton and Columbia who recently urged a reconsideration and revision of the debt pacts. Soon President Hibben replied, and amid the clash of opinions facts became cloudy. But the following facts, as stated by Secretary Mellon, were not challenged...
...this routine nature of our present life is probably the reason for the great vogue that now belongs to such plays as "The Student Prince," "Castles in the Air," and "The Vagabond King", the latter now current at the Shubert...
...paralyzed. So was his bladder and his throat and his diaphragm. Two men whom he knew?fellow employes of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois (Samuel Insull, Chairman) ?stood at either side of his body. With their hands they were pushing down on his chest and squeezing air out of his lungs. When they let go, a little air would whistle back into his lungs...
...dynamos. The moving arms had hairs on them, and after a while he could see the little drops of sweat forming and making the hairs on the arms go limp. Then a new set of arms would come on duty to force his lungs, like bellows, to suck in air...
...accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...