Word: eden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Within these bounds not only the fauna but also the flora will be left undisturbed. Provision has been made for a sufficient number of wardens to prevent the intrusion of hunters and to prevent the destruction of plants or trees. The sanctuary will be a sort of Garden of Eden where the animals may live in peace, amid their natural surroundings, without fear of man. This reserve lies in the northeastern part of the Belgian Congo between Lake Kivu and Uganda. It embraces the three volcanoes of Mount Mikeno, Mount Karissimbi (altitude 13,500 feet) and Mount Visoke, comprising...
...overpowering odors of opopanax and ambergris. . . . "And what has happened to the waltz has happened to all popular music. It was once innocent, now provocative; once pellucid, now richly clotted; once elegant, now it delights in being barbarous. ... It is the difference be tween life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because...
...week, however, brought to a close a highly professional piece of religious journalism. It was an exhaustive investigation of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas?so-called "Darkest Dallas"? conducted by The Churchman. It developed the amazing story of a die-hard Bishop, and a Hell-and-Garden-of-Eden Baptist, united with the Ku Klux in a bond of enmity against a liberal Rector...
...table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there been offered to weak and erring humanity such an irresistible temptation as buck wheat cakes and syrup, sweeter than the honey of the Hybla bee. "The seriousness of my charge against the President is accentuated by the fact that the victims of his attack are the veterans...
...simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that...