Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign staff of the Chicago Daily News, had "sold" the idea, first to Prime Minister King, then to Mr. MacDonald. Among journalists, Edward Price Bell is a Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who 30 years ago conceived a worldwide foreign service which was to be "the handmaiden of state craft." Men who worked abroad for Journalist Lawson had to be diplomatists as well as reporters. They were to aid in interpreting...
...that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part of all really great poetry...
...girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes...
...trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals. He gave her lessons in building fires, tent-pitching, sleeping under the stars. "Those days," says Mrs. Hoover, "went by like a dream." Her father died last summer. To Monterey one day came Prof. Branner, geologist of the new Leland Stanford Jr. University. He gave a popular lecture on "The Bones of the Earth." Lou Henry attended, listened closely...
...drew plans, estimated expenditures. But the City Fathers had other ideas, and when at last a Hudson River bridge was actually begun, it was the now-building structure from 178th Street to Fort Lee. Ironic, to Mr. Lindenthal, must be the sight of the Fort Lee towers, of his dream transplanted and its fulfilment in other hands...