Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost alone among the rows of shells in the Newell boathouse, Holter Anderson, boat-builder for the Harvard crews, has dug in for the winter's work of constructing a new eight and two or more singles...
...Bremer County, Iowa, back in 1906, a tall, gaunt, 42-year-old man named Joseph Newt Finney was blasting rock at his trade of fence-builder. A charge of dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...Parley gets on and where is Britain? No, not quite where we hoped to see her somehow. In some slippery fashion she got over on the Japanese side of the fence and is now supporting Nipponese equality claims! Empire-Builder, Big Navy England of all nations! And she has the added presumption to offer Japan her good offices, in polite condescension to the Japanese, to mediate and urge the Americans to see their point of view. Admiral Yamomoto no doubt felt that there was something 'fishy' about it all, and that admirable statesman politely refused the tender of good offices...
Pertinent to Mrs. Selwyn's situation was the British Government's Kenya White Paper of 1923 which Kenya whites hate and which would have astounded Empire Builder Rhodes. It laid down the rule: "The interests of the African natives must be paramount, and that if, and when, those interests, and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail. . . . The principle of trusteeship for the natives ... is unassailable...
...Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque...