Word: channell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists glory in the equalities already proved, hoping only to increase their scope. Meanwhile one may wish them success with that shrewd toast: "Here's to woman, once our superior and now our equal...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...different governments, each entirely separate from the rest, each administratively, financially and legislatively self-contained. The whole system with its haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system in favor of some uniform logical scheme...
...hard to grasp. One does not have to be a materialist to believe that the reason for the flood in the bottom lands is not that God is angry with Arkansas and Louisiana but that there ir too much water in the river to run off through the normal channel...
...attention of the members of the Literary Guild this month, the poem, 4,000 lines long, begins and ends with small Isolt of Brittany, whose hands are made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram has a name upon his lips...