Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...
...written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph" is one of the most pleasant and vivid stories that has appeared for some time, and will make everyone hope for more novels by Margaret Kennedy. D. H. Lawrence's "St. Mawr," Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves," and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" all seem to have their admirers. There has been another title added to the English version of Marcel Proust--"The Guermantes Way." As usual the translating is excellent, and the book is in many respects the most fascinating of this great series...
...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
Still later he lunched with C.W. Barren, Publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Barron is a large breeder of Guernsey cattle, and Mrs. Coolidge asked him why it is that some cows' horns curl up and other cows' horns curl down...
...moral of these three little fables, selected at random from a large number, is distressingly clear. Cambridge is not, in the summer time, a center of scholarly reflection and philosophic calm. It is on the contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...