Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another Cliff to Carve...
...Rutherford County, N. C, not many miles from Asheville, a brawling mountain stream cascades down through a narrow little valley in the mountains. On one side the mountains rise, on the other runs a stone cliff 400 ft. high and 2,000 ft. long. This cliff terminates abruptly as the stream debouches abruptly upon a plain, and at the cliff, a giant shivver of it, detached from the main mass, rises the full height of the precipice, like a giant terminal column. It is called Chimney Rock and is one of the scenic spots of North Carolina. Beautiful views...
Last week Governor McLean of North Carolina and a group of "influential citizens" offered Mr. Borglum the cliff adjoining Chimney Rock for another memorial to the Confederacy. Mr. Borglum inspected, professed extreme pleasure. The spot chosen for the North Carolina memorial has long been a resort which has lately been "improved" and modernized with the addition of golf links, etc. With the appearance of Mr. Borglum's giant sculptures this spot will become indeed civilized, although situated in the ruggedest country. Special means for "drying" the great cliff wall will probably have to be taken since (at least...
Young Cauldwell rode his pony along the sea-cliff...
...published Californians, narrative poems celebrative of the state he had adopted, but acclamation of this book, as of Tamar, was inaudible east of the Sierras. Mr. Jeffers has never contributed to magazines, "thinking that poetry is nothing if it is not individual." Near Monterey, on a stormy ocean cliff, he and his wife live in "a thick-walled house and tower of gray-granite sea-boulders," built mostly with his own hands...