Word: cavernously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the recesses of one such cavern on Tristan Island, Arthur Repetto, brother of the island's headman, found a ship's figurehead. Its ghostlike glimmer "skeered" him at first. When he went in he found a beautifully modeled maiden, nine feet high. Her hair was done up in a bun behind her head; a long cloak, which her left hand grasped, covered her dress. Her right hand held a lily to her bosom. Around her neck was carved a necklace of disks; a tasseled cord girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with...
Against the end of the pier bumped ferries, jammed with standing soldiers in full kit. A band played as they marched off, blinking in the bright-lighted cavern of the pier, their weapons banging their tails, their helmets heavy on their heads...
...Prensa's only winner widely known to the U.S. public was in the class of female entertainers: the explosive Spanish gypsy dancer, Carmen Amaya (TIME, Feb. 17, 1941). Hollywood's cavern-mouthed Carmen Miranda came in 20th, famed Dancer Argentinita 37th...
Millions of bats of all kinds, chiefly Free-tailed or Guano Bats from Mexico, make their winter home in Carlsbad Cavern and neighboring caves in New Mexico...
...cave, religion and family life begin again. Today the ambiguous thunder talks above every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work of literature after another, meanwhile, a similar mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden...