Word: barrens
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...Modernistic art is barren of originality and thought. ... A designer may often think he is going to be governed solely by the utilitarian and to hell with beauty-but no one ever really does that...
...North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy birds, and those who had leases planned a season of hard shooting to reduce the big coveys to a few birds so that those that remained would mate and continue the supply. Further...
...whimsical drawings. Within two years he was sending 2,000 printed letters a month. In 1912 the letter writing business had grown so big (although "there was no money in it") that he changed it to the monthly magazine, John Martin's Book. Richly illustrated and printed, nearly barren of advertising, the magazine has not been profitable. To make money, Editor Shepard has written children's booklets for Wanamaker's store, advertisements for various companies...
...plantation, the Colonel is now of no particular account in his own eyes, or in anybody else's. Only Ponny, his dull, adoring wife believes in "Mr. Milt's" in evitable greatness. He had married her for her money years ago, but the money was gone, and she was barren. Ponny grows bigger & bigger with affection and fat, but never with the hoped-for child...
...European could not survive a year's visit. She had built tight houses for her black charges. She had tended the sick, cracked an occasional black male pate for wife-beating, tried to teach the Tulasus tidiness and something about her God. In return, the Tulasus called barren Miss Thompson "Mother...