Word: lures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have more fish in proportion to the water...
Lady Do. Here is a musical comedy exploiting that situation, apparently entrancing to many, in which a man dresses like a woman to lure his rival away from the heroine, in order that he-she may gain her for her-himself. Karyl Normand impersonates easily...
...would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved in the appearance of fantastic beasts. They were gargoyles, that seemed to droop their eyes in mischievous lure, in vague invitation to Student Mowrey. He pictured the old church standing silent in moonlight, and the gargoyles coming down from their towers for a rowdy riot of dance and clatter. This was material for a symphony, Student Mowrey, cold, sober, realized...
This for one trail. If one associates himself with a trail system of any size, he will find so many problems and matters of interest that they will exclude every other activity if given rein. The lore and the lure of the trail are equally endless. The write can testify that one may spend years on the matter of trail signs, always finding it interesting and always learning something new. For no one yet knows the best type of sign for trails...
...puzzle, but the farmers were pleased, so they sent him to the Senate in 1923. A radical at Washington, he is just a good, big farmer* out in the Red River Valley. Republicans who ousted him from the regular Senate organization in 1924, are now attempting to lure him back into the party fold with a choice Committee membership...