Word: floorless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul and back to France again. His account of Russia is not friendly. To his ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets...
...museum as well as municipal offices. Designed by the Allied Architects Association, the structure suggests a coronet on the city's brow. In it are twelve kinds of marble and $5,000,000 of taxpayers' money, a far advance beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert...
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