Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bourget (Paris airport) hundreds of humans were squatting, dancing, shouting on a flat and barren plain in the dead of night. Revelers in. evening clothes uncorked champagne bottles for actresses who did not mind sitting on the grass. Peasants were satisfied with good red wine and longish sandwiches. Suddenly, at 3:15 a. m., the plainsfolk scampered toward other folk who cheered as a huge, ghostly bird emerged from a huger tent...
...quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor it is finding in non-academic circles is indicative of its appeal to those who are not intrinsically interested in its subject matter. Harvard University may well be proud of a man who has made this distinctive contribution to modern criticism...
...Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the United Press Association; on May 17 in Washington before the American Medical Association; on May 30 at the Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Memorial Day; on June 11 in Washington before the business organization of the Federal Government. C Barren Collier, booster, seller of streetcar advertising, had luncheon with President Coolidge, informed him that a survey of 3,500 U. S. cities pointed to business prosperity. The first six months of 1927, said Mr. Collier, should yield as large profits as the corresponding record-breaking period...
...then explained that since the American sprang from humble origins transplanted on a barren shore, it is of little wonder that he is artistically an ignoramus...
...undeniable, especially to those who have seen spring come in other climates, that in Cambridge it is an insidious malady. It will be a month or more before the trees are green; but the absence of the decayed mounds of snow, the softness of the sun on the barren bricks of the street, are damning to all in themselves; and the CRIMSON extends to all those afflicted with spring fever its best wishes for a lingering convalescence...