Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intimate knowledge of the locality and her undeniable powers of description have united to make the veldt of Rhodesia live before our eyes. We can see the drab, ramsrackle villages; the deserted mines; the winding, dusty roads. We begin to understand the peculiar fascination which lies in the broad, barren stretches of desert country--a fascination which grips all who make their dwelling there...
...fight ignorance, superstition, drunkenness, prejudice, disease, dirt." Bitterly attacked. Saved Tsarist statues from the mob. Heated art galleries during fuel famines. Assisted by wives of Soviet leaders. Sans peur et sans reproche, the "gentleman" of the Revolution. Of Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin, Foreign Minister, aristocrat: "Living alone in a barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like to ride in automobiles. . . . Does...
...wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen, rocks like petrified caravans of camels, horsemen and carts; and over all saw the barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against the iron lances of the Western knights: the Mongolia which has only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated...
...number of tea-drinkers is increasing rapidly; and as we cannot believe that a man can drink tea on seriously without some softening and mellowing influence coming over him, we are forced to the welcome conclusion that aestheticism is at last making progress in what formerly seemed a barren field...
...There has been need of a light for his feet--a cuiding beacon of hope towards which he might struggle across the orange pops the blocked his way. And at last it has come dight in sunset livery of scarlet and gold, shedding its mellow rays alike upon the barren walks of the Yard and the Dingy gutters of Plympton street. And the undergraduate rejoices and is content...