Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...Mesa Centrala is riddled with these tremendous gorges. The change in climate as you descend is remarkable. The mine was up on the rim in a forest of pine trees; but down below where the ore was carried by an aerial tramway, the jungle was full of parrots and monkeys...
Professor Maclagan dwells on the unobtrusiveness of the building. As the director of a large museum he realizes that often the forest cannot be seen on account of the trees, that the pictures and sculptures are quite overwhelmed by the surrounding magnificence. Therefore he compliments the men responsible for the structure on the restraint and foresight they have exercised. The student of the University may well join with him, in the eulogies he bestows. Assimilation of a large number of pictures is a laborious task. It is ameliorated, however, by the presence of the best possible facilities for viewing those...
...heart is a dark forest where...
...mind, always she was held apart from them by the high wall between the bright gardens. They have for her at first the unreality, the incongruity, the strange definiteness of the people in her dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest. Then the strangeness but not the glamor fades; she is bored by friendly, clumsy Martin; pities shy, remote, hedonistic Julian; loves Roddy, who is suave and erratic, quiet and incalculable. After that summer of reacquaintance she goes away to Cambridge...