Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indies, once the bourn of every explorer, source of spices and plumes and gold, home of the noble savage, Ophir, cradle of wealth, land of the faraway dream, are now the backyard of squabbling empires. Six captious countries have their pieces...
Lawrence and his worshiping women is a thoroughly exploited subject; Lawrence and his worshipful cow is a new one. The cow, Susan, browsed in the backyard at Taos, N. M., and was regarded by Lawrence with genuine devotion. "The queer cowy mystery of her," he wrote, "is her changeless cowy desirableness." William York Tindall, a 36-year-old professor with a razor wit, has read everything that Lawrence wrote, everything (so far as possible) that he read, and everything written about him, simply to trace the path that led Lawrence to this love. The result falls into that class...
...Cincinnati and Covington, Ky., was nicknamed "Buffalo" because of his infant virility. In those days pigs still cleaned the Cincinnati streets; Conestoga wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...
...president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite brownshirts' warnings. When police stopped him one day at the gates of University of Berlin, he barked: "I'm going in, and what are you going to do about it?" They were too astonished to do anything...
...Vacationers last week were given an ugly warning to take their gas masks with them to the sea shore. But Bulldog Spirit can bring a bit of beautification even to A. R. P., as Mr. C. W. Milsom of Barnsbury, London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case...