Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods, and beneath all, the chassis of a prehistoric Empress...
...Governor Cremonesi, within five years Rome must appear as a marvel to all the people of the world?vast, ordered and powerful as it was in the time of the First Empire of Augustus. You will make open squares around the Augusteo Amphitheatre, around the ancient Marcello Theatre, around the Capitol, around the Pantheon. Everything that has been built around these monuments during the centuries of decadence must disappear. Within five years the Pantheon must be visible from the Piazza Colonna through a wide avenue...
Said The Club Fellow*: "Ruth Pratt is a wonder! Other mothers of growing sons and daughters marvel at her energy. Fancy a woman running for Alderman of the 15th District and between runs preparing for the début of a daughter! Yet the dance at which Sally Pratt will make her bow to society on December the Thirteenth will be as spiffy as the party given for any other girl launched during the holidays...
...hundred other poets and writers better suited for such a purpose. It is true in the 'Roman Elegies' Goethe has treated the joys of physical love, but he has done it with such consummate art and the illusion of the classical background is so complete that we can only marvel...