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...infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely Puncheon's mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs till twilight falls around them. This is the tenuous framework upon which Walter De La Mare has shaped one more unearthly, sad and lovely book. Turning, as always, from what is to him the Stench, trespass and futility of the present, he breaks bread with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

Such are a few of Mr. Lawrence's more consecutive pronouncements. He proclaims with some justice Melville's Moby Dick the greatest book of the sea ever written. But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officer! He's in Again! One Wonders What Lawrence Would Do With Mother Goose | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...Jersey, 17-year-old greybeards of the navy, will bear the brunt of the experiment. During the last two weeks of August the vessels will be taken out, off the Virginia Capes, and army aviators from Langley Field will do their best to make that spot the graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thunderbolts | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...uselessness by the entirly inadequate appropriations of Congress. Even the National Guard and the Reserve Corps have been greatly impaired by this so-called economy. The navy is in much the same plight. Its personnel has been so reduced that it has to send its ships to the "graveyard" for de-commissioned vessels. On October 21, twelve destroyers, representing the 12th and 37th divisions, just returned from two years of patrol duty on the China coast, were added to the twenty-two vessels already in the "graveyard" at San Diego bay, representing in all a total cost of construction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN | 10/27/1922 | See Source »

...this field a bright future for every man of ability who will work. His conclusion that the game is decidedly worth the candle, will put heart into many who have been deterred from entering upon this valuable work by hearing those engaged in it condemn it as the "Graveyard of Genius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTIVATING A NOSE FOR NEWS | 5/26/1914 | See Source »

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