Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night. By New Year's Day the great watersheds of Europe foamed and thundered with torrents of melting snow, which ordinarily pass harmlessly away during the long European spring. Telegraphers, working night and day over the few lines that were not down, flooded the dry portions of the earth with news of the aqueous catastrophe...
...last poems was dedicated to me, 'To Isadora, alone worthy of being loved by a poet. . . .' He must have taken his life during a fit of passing madness. . . . Still, he had a distaste for this materialistic world. . . . His poems were about things like horses and clods of earth and revolutions. . . . My consolation is that they will survive his tragic death...
...hoped that he was present at the cave-in. One would like to hear what chills fluttered down his spine as he saw the strangely sagging ice, knowing what emptiness lurked below but not what quips might strike above. Perhaps like Napoleon at Ratisbon, he mused, "my plans to earth may fall" let yonder crevices sunder inches more...
...road and from all the four corners of the earth, and in 1,000 voices, was money, money, money! We were living over a powder mine, and every minute brought a new sensation, brought a dozen of them, brought one hot after another...
...Five years of poverty, five years of awful struggle, and now the earth was mine?rich at last, richer than I had ever dreamed of being?$1,000 a week net, and every week adding to it by leaps and bounds?$50,000 a year and all mine?next year $60,000, then $70,000 and $100,000?$1,000,000, maybe?great heavens, and it was real...