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Word: aridity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters gave further evidence of the unevenness of his poetic gift and of his fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Poet on Sad Poet | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

While the Committee was thrashing its scheme out Italy's Premier heard they were going to offer him two strips of territory in Ethiopia's more arid areas. "It looks as if the League thinks I am a collector of deserts!" joked the Dictator with one of the few Englishmen he likes, the London Daily Mail's Ward Price. "The plan is not only unacceptable but derisory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bullying & Bluffing | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising in Caen. When he pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathtub Killer | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...life Mary grasped at straws, and as her love affairs were tragedies of unfulfillment, so her ill-organized conspiracies and arid plots were the politics, not of passion, but of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen & Straws | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...Dead. Knowing only a little of Abyssinia, its blazing heat and freezing nights, its mosquito-infested swamps, fierce tribesmen, arid plains and almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-ABYSSINIA: Intolerable Presumption! | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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