Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about his pre-eminence among U. S. playwrights, the reason being that his characters have been chosen right at the theatre's ticket-window instead of, as is O'Neill's custom, out of a primitive and hence foreign environment like a barge, a jungle, a boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than ever. We are used to seeing rivers dredged but it is appalling to behold excavations in the front lawn...
...quiet old man, more given to work than talk. He never speaks in public, not even at such occasions as the dedication of a boulder bearing his name upon the site of his great beginnings (at Menlo Park, N. J.) ( TIME, May 25). So the guests at the annual dinner of the Old Time Telegraphers, held last week in Manhattan on the docked S. S. Olympic, were astonished and delighted to learn that he had consented to break his rule this once...
With every chug the yacht drew nearer to the squat boulder from whose eminence New England society finds itself able to look down. And when the helmsman at last ran to earth Captain Adolphus' pin, the President and Mrs. Coolidge disembarked " amid many direct descendants of the original Pilgrims,"; who were swelled by unabashed plebeians into "an enthusiastic crowd...
...last week, a large boulder obstructed traffic on the Lincoln Highway at Menlo Park, between New Brunswick and Metuchen, N. J. The boulder was not directly on the cement, nor did it lean menacingly over it. Motorists could have passed by comfortably, save that before the boulder, ranged in rows upon the highway, were some 600 chairs of the folding variety used for church sociables, political meetings and open-air exercises...
Upon the chairs sat notables, upon a platform more notables. Across the boulder rippled two U. S. flags, behind which, fixed in the stone, a bronze tablet mutely announced: "On this site-1876-1882-Thomas Alva Edison began his work of service for the world. . . . This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers...