Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter how well trained, is less flexible in pantomime than a dog. Yet a horse has an extroardinary, individual attraction that is quite irresistible. The story is as usual flimsy and absurd. Rex is shown making love to lovely mares of his acquaintance, running over leagues of attractively barren prairies, and avenging the Indians' murder of his owner's old father. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that the cinema will supply its animal actors with good stories when its expensive mortals must be content with so much trash. It is, however, the opinion of some cynics...
...hard to have a garden when you live on the tenth floor* of a hotel. Leaning out of the window of her apartment in the Hotel Charlotte (Charlotte, N. C.) a certain Mrs. A. A. Barren propped a heavy green box, filled with earth and flower seeds, on a corner of the ledge before lowering it to a little stone shelf that ran around the building a foot lower down. She reflected on the long way her garden would fall...
...Swedenborgians, form a quiet, modest sect, which nevertheless sends out persistent propaganda of their faith. Last week they announced in their chief periodical, The New-Church Messenger, an appeal for $100,000 to make facile a reprinting of their master's works?32 volumes. Clarence Walker Barron, editor of Barren's Financial Weekly and of the Wall Street Journal, heads the funds committee, promised to get $50,000 himself, urged other church members to contribute another...
Humanism has much of the vagabond spirit. It recognizes the lutility of boundaries, national or academic, and the barren wastes of ordered patterns. Often it gathers as little moss as any rolling stone. Erasmus, on the other hand, humanist of humanists, picked up much moss in his travels to Oxford and France. Those more regular and ordered souls who have sat through a year of History 7 point to the lecture on Erasmus as one of the many high points of the course. Professor Whitney will deliver it at 11 o'clock, this morning in Emerson...
...going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take the air. The sledgers would then mush swiftly across the barren "benchlands" to meet them at the advance air base, Point Barrow...