Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first year out, an assistant engineer had died. They wrapped him in a Norwegian flag and laid him in a gigantic mausoleum, a cave carved into an iceberg...
...feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare had chiseled in the concave night, he looked like a man standing in a cave, beset by prodigious walls...
...Lord Cave is now 69 years of age, was a scholar of St. John's College. As plain George Cave he entered the world from secluded Oxford to qualify in the legal profession. He attained a success which, if not brilliant, was solid and remunerative. He entered politics late in his legal career, being elected as Conservative member for Kingston in 1906, the year of the great Liberal victory...
...Lord Cave undoubtedly lacks the brilliance of his opponent, Lord Oxford, and he has not served his country so greatly, so well, nor so long; but, despite this, he has a polish which is proof against the vicissitudes of fortune by which genius is sometimes defeated. He is a solid man, physically and mentally, a capable man and a practical man. The English often fear brilliance and almost always are suspicious of it. In Lord Cave, Oxford has found a man who has fewer enemies than most public men, a man who can be trusted for the rest...
...Hermit. His incest with his lovely daughter seemed perfectly pure and natural to him. He had a genius for love. Robust, red-faced, scar- cheeked, with naked lids' over his dark eyes, Savel the sawyer settled in a cave after his acquittal, dedicated himself effectively to the needs of the love-starved peasantry, healing chiefly by the epithet "dearest," pronounced with a great compassion...