Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with her secret intact, her spirit erect. She beat back the broom sedge, brought prosperity from barren ground. She beat back memory, married out of respect, and for convenience, gained a strong contentment without love. At 50, hale and evenminded, she had only pity left for the dying Jason. As from an eminence hard won, she saw lives as fretful incidents and watched her wide horizon...
...BARREN GROUND-Ellen Glasgow-Doubleday, Page...
...upspurt lately enjoyed by the railroad industry, some enthusiasts have been led to talk as if, until the past year or so, American railroads were barren investments. A financial scribe compiled, last week, a list of the American roads with long dividend records which throws an interesting light on the subject...
...reconstruction work in the devastated regions, but that at no time did the Government resort to illegal financing. He reminded the Premier that the Expert' (Dawes) Plan had been made and accepted before he came into power and inferred that his [Herriot's] Government had been barren, contrary to the Premier's election promises, of constructive financial reforms. The ex-Premier concluded his speech by saying that the Premier had lost the confidence of the country and that it was time...
...THOSE BARREN LEAVES?Aldous Huxley?Doran (.$2.50). *From Max Beerbohm's THE NEW AND THE OLD-William Heinemann, London ($6.00). ?Gutter Italian for Rolls-Royce...