Word: dreamer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there the dreamer dwells...
...idle dreamer, Mr. Wood is shrewd enough to boom the fat daily as a necessary corollary to his new high-speed printing and feeding machinery. He is one of those manufacturers who take pride in combining the appearance of an English aristocrat with an up-to-the-moment knowledge of aeronautics, yachting, advertising, printing...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
...stumbles to the top of the hill for a last earthly vision of the horizon that had always beckoned to him. Dead, he enters who can say what felicity? The production is beautiful. After doing the Babbitts for almost a year, Robert Keith covers himself with glory as the dreamer of the hill. Aline MacMahon, woodenly hopeless, is the woman who saved neither others nor herself...
...baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers and crew-will be carried inside enormous wings in machines of the future. Passengers will be able to move freely inside and I see no reason why they should not enjoy the amenities of seagoing passengers...