Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie of the Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World, Get There America Benefit Association, Prudent Patricians of Pompeii of the U. S. of America, Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen, Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers...
...have been extended. The aspiring "eminents" in the University, unless supremely certain of themselves, care not to spend their time with students. The concrete evidence of this is that the tutorial work in Physics is farcical, the adviser in chemistry is very little more than a man with a fountain...
...rotunda will be converted into an English Garden flanked by high walls, green benches, white statuary, and cypress trees. In the center will stand a fountain...
...quiet of the evening--even as I saw them yesterday--when the old Italian draws water from the fountain for the young ones who were not sold, casting out the old to urchins playing in the street, and then puts to the shutters of his trade, might not then the more bold of the lot, feeling the strength of a kindred spirit, steal by the fragrance of their souls into that same room where lives the memory of him who loved them so well...
...morning when the old Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...