Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elementary knowledge of Latin and German and the patience of Job are the prerequisites for this course. Grubbing for roots may be an enjoyable task in pleasant sunny garden, but it is less happy in the dusty purlieus of the English language, except for those who have a natural bent for grubbing...
...room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
...nations who were branded by the majority with responsibility for the World War are the ones who will attend the Geneva Conference with minds most seriously bent on disarmament...
...taking off his shoes and running about the yard barefoot every warm afternoon, to the dismay of the tea-party on the porch, there stood in the library a small statue of a gentleman whose naked freedom was a source of envy to the Vagabond. This gentleman was bent in a very athletic position, and in his right hand, withdrawn behind his back, was a circular object like a dinner-plate. Uncles and aunts had disclosed to the Vagabond the fact that the gentleman was preparing to throw the dinner-plate, but in hours of watching he never...
...FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark...