Word: foamings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monster shot under the Albany bridge of the Hudson River, heading downstream, a monster shaped like a huge boat, edged with foam and letting out an enormous engine roar. Quickly the monster lost its symmetry, split up into 101 separate hydroplane, outboard and runabout motor boats. In its roar the drone of individual engines could be distinguished. In the boats, bouncing on the floorboards in their padded driving suits, clutching their wheels with one hand while with the other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again...
Down in New Haven the Ear of Young America harkens with Harkness back to an older Old World tradition. Three Reading Periods (stand and bow) are sufficient at least to blow the foam off a jugged brew. Three Reading Periods (roar from the pit) provide plenteous days to sink back into the Mediaeval and quaint Villonesque depravity. Against this melodrama. Harvard offers One Reading Period (now over) and the cheery blue dome of Lowell House reassuring the faithful that God's in his heaven and speaking to His Chosen The Vagabond endorses... and hibernates in the pure driven snow that...
...camera's versatility in angles and colors is neglected, but the pictures tell in quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda...
...belated dedication is not necessarily a reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary...
...Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless eye may never notice. From love's wide-flowering mountainside I chose This sprig of green, in which an angel shows...