Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the gigantic empty caverns where oratory and reason often mix in unequal proportions, workmen had ripped out the seats and equipment in the Senate and House chambers; ugly steel beams still upheld the ceilings. A visitor to Washington would find the President...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren'...
The traveler who went to Hoorn on the Zuider Zee was face to face with a warning. Once one of the country's great trading centers, Hoorn's crabbed brown houses now totter over narrow, idle streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once...
Temporarily ensconced at Chipping Lodge is Mrs. Brocken's brother-in-law Simon, the sort of crabbed but basically kindhearted curmudgeon who has been a reliable fixture of English novels for several centuries. Simon is decidedly hostile to modern life: "I look back to 1912 as the highest point...
James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author...