Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accompanying note he wrote that the works are presented to the library of the University of Cambridge in New England as a mark of deep interest in its high literary character, and in the successful zeal it has displayed through so long a course of years for the promotion of solid and elegant education...
...deep problem, even for a clever Welshman. Not only his political career, but his moral foundations are slipping under him. And although he may save the first by keeping the film out of England, he cannot escape his conscience, which tells him constantly that, whoever is right, he has done wrong, How Mr. Lloyd-George must regret ever having gone to Germany...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...
...marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face of a man take on the spirituality of a Christ. Mr. Brangwyn may find his model there. If he cannot, he has cut deep into the flesh of modern pride...