Word: borderlander
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...respectfully aware of Virginia Woolf. Said they: ". . . Liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time. . . . Everything excites her, beggars and duchesses, snowflakes and dolphins. . . ." Passionately intelligent, with a long, drooping, intellectual face, large, heavy-lidded, straining eyes, Virginia Woolf looks as if she were peering out from a borderland where great wits remember their kinship to madness. Other books: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Monday or Tuesday, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Common Reader, A Room...
Border Terriers, never shown in the U. S. before, were not recognized as a breed in England until 1920. They are smart fox-hunting dogs and get their name because they come from the borderland of Scotland and England. They are small, hard-looking terriers, a foot high and weighing about 15 Ib. A West Point cadet who showed three of them had the class to himself. Best was Blacklyne Lady...
...school of Bohemians. The growth of all living art is caused by that outer fringe of radicals, who are trying to break away from the established order and create new and more expressive modes peculiar to themselves. It is true that a great many artists who belong to this borderland quest for the new and the strange are wild eyed romantics disregarding all discipline and moderation. There are also extremists in the other direction, who impose a rigider and more inapplicable set of rules on themselves than those conventions from which they are revolting. However the future trends...
...this last foresight which took him last month to Washington, D. C., and, by a quirk of human affairs, to the borderland of another phase of the future. The Senators who asked him to come and tell about Radio Corp.'s plan for selling its communications business to International Telephone & Telegraph Co., were far less interested in his business ideas than in the effect which those ideas, publicly expressed, might have upon Owen D. Young's chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President...
...fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series...