Word: bris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He climbed to the top of the building. He saw his parents waving to him from a window, just before a wall of water and de-bris-"a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees and animals"- struck the house, crushed it like an eggshell. With a self-possession unmatched in autobiographical literature, young Victor Heiser took out his watch, noted the time. It was just...
Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost...
...economic tempest with which a lesser engineer in the White House could not cope, never until 1932, was the House of the Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
...Opals are iridescent bits of silica which sometimes permeate fossil débris...
...moral in the last sentence Mr. Bris bane has repeated as often as that child-rearing and travel broaden one. An incessant traveler himself, he happened to recross Kansas last week. Another colyumist, Urban Heywood Broun (reputedly earns more than $50,000 yearly), also crossed Kansas last week-for the first time...