Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives...
...Kansas prairie and the imminence of Commencement Day makes a tidy appearance essential, the Maintenance Department has called in outside aid. A team of four men do the work. Two, with the assistance of a five-ton truck and a pneumatic drill, place row after row of three-inch-deep holes, spaced a foot apart in the grass. The other two follow, filling the holes with plant food and replacing the divots...
This week in an executive order President Roosevelt prescribed wage scales for the work relief program. Dividing the nation into four regions-Deep South, Middle South, Central States, Northern States-he established rates based upon five population classifications ranging from rural districts and towns under 5,000 to cities over 100,000. Categories of workers: unskilled, intermediate, skilled, professional and technical. Lowest pay will be $19 per month for unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused...
...buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...tall, heavy-framed man with powerful shoulders and a slow, enigmatic smile, Orlando Weber may have been thought icy by the few hirelings that ever saw him. But with his friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further...