Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie in the bottle has escaped, and none can tell how large he may grow...
Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...presage his becoming the poet who has said the most remembered things about the President. "Drum-Taps" and its sequel did not appear until 1866. Walt Whitman said: "Lincoln is particularly my man . . . we are afloat on the same stream--we are rooted in the same ground." His words grow in presumption as the Lincoln tradition grows heartier. In the early days he had felt that they were young Lochinvars together, seeking fame in an alfen east...
Fletcher Harper Swift, professor of education at the University of California: "There is a breadline in Chicago and a breadline in Boston which grows longer and longer and will continue to grow unless we can keep the people contented on the farms...
...ordered for itself a new house of steel and Indiana limestone. It will rise 25 stories along the west bank of the Chicago River-a neighbor of the new Union Station. It will have a public plaza on which fountains will play and perhaps a few trees will grow. Under the plaza and one corner of the building will run the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. But railroad service will not be interrupted during construction of the News' house. Holabird & Roche are the architects. Cost is estimated at $8,000,000. Upper stories...