Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Notes to Be Left in a Cornerstone. To the questioning spirit of the future the poet says that maps, photographs and statistics cannot describe the "different beast" of New York, the city that awakened in the autumn, when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly...
Blue-eyed, honey-haired Helen Elizabeth Phillips is a graduate of Redwood City's Sequoia High School, served apprenticeship in the stoneyards of the California School of Fine Arts under the sympathetic eye of Sculptor Ralph Stackpole. When Helen Phillips later entered the school, she found Sculptor Stackpole's vigorous, massive modernism much to her liking. Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips...
...Tanked with rye whiskey and honey, he roared through Washington in his Packard roadster looking for her, zigzagging, climbing sidewalks, bumping fenders...
...Angelo makes its living from sheep and from goats, of which Texas possesses 90% of the U. S. supply. Abilene is a livestock town, also markets peanut products, poultry remedies, artificial limbs. Uvalde is famed as the home of John Nance Garner and as the world's biggest honey centre...
Next morning, after a breakfast of sausages, hot rolls, honey and coffee, came a spasm of postcard-writing. One Hans Hinrichs proudly got off 200 in jig-time by means of a rubber stamp saying: "Greetings from mid-ocean and mid-heaven." Passenger Murray Simon related his adventures in 1910 as navigator on the airship America, which set out from Atlantic City, came down 1,000 miles at sea on the first attempt to cross by dirigible...