Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself com fortable there; found it "a pleasure to listen to the fine flow of phrase, apart from the depth of their content, as they fall from the lips of the Chief Rabbi. His diction is graceful, his voice pleasant as it starts in moderate tones and becomes deeper and more intense as his words gather in force. You are surprised that...
BLUE VOYAGE-Conrad Aiken- Scribners ($2.50). Whatever the "new" psychology may or may not have done for morals, it has certainly burst the literary levees that used to confine the novel to its streambed. Conrad Aiken, long an escapist poet, is now able to over-flow the way Poet James Joyce did in Ulysses, with a whirling deluge of internal experience flooding in the general direction of a narrative. Less turbulent than Poet Joyce, Poet Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young...
Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...
...President and the Colonel are not so far apart as these circumstances would indicate. The pomp of office and the prestige of daring are alike playthings of the press and the public. There is an incessant pulse in the nation: and ebb follows flow and flow succeeds ebb with deadly certainty...
...moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment...