Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pasture and meadow lands. He had, I suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean...
...romantic movement is one full of contradictions. Not only was it most thoroughly un-Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land...
...least a year old, having developed out of a larval stage which Science long took to be a distinct species of surface-dwelling fish, leptocephali, notable for their complete lack of reproductive organs. The presence of eels in waters blocked from the sea by high falls, and in land-locked ponds and lakes, is readily accounted for by the eel's ability to live a long time out of water, to travel considerable distances overland at night, through wet grass or during damp weather. The ancient Greeks, perplexed by eels' habits, considered them Jupiter's spawn...
Aboard the Berengaria, sailing toward the land of the Duchy of Marlborough, feminist Mrs. Belmont read on in her book, her face impassive...
...Famed actor-author-manager, husband of famed Comedienne Yvonne Printemps; son of the great actor-manager Lucien Guitry. M. Sacha Guitry's dramas appear on the stages of every land including the Scan dinavian...