Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another diversion - or dementia - on the part of the visiting Elks was scattering confetti on the populace below from hotel windows, and when the 'fetti ran out, so the story runs, hundreds of pillows were ripped open and the feathers were strewn "all over Creation and a part of Cincinnati...
Last week Mr. Selfridge spoke before students of the Liverpool University School of Architecture. Said he: "I will tell you the order of the five most beautiful things in creation: A beautiful woman first, then a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful edifice...
...biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished Clare? Afraid you can't have any more time today.' I experienced all the pangs of thwarted ambition, denial in che midst of white hot creation, death in the midst of life, and could have wept." The many assurances of Author Cameron's eagerness to express herself arouse the suspicion that she would have done better to curb her eagerness until she was eager to express more than her eagerness to express herself...
Composer Emmett never regarded "Dixie" as his ablest creation. He personally liked better his now-forgotten "Old Dan Tucker." Emmett, runaway son of a blacksmith, sang and banjoed in the country's earliest traveling minstrel quartets, barnstorming from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years...
...shared in the creation or support of various departments in state or national health services in 16 countries...