Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed, Missouri's dynamic Democrat, let fly: ". . . another move of Morgan & Co. to get its financial hooks into Mexico...
...which will compose the projected chemistry group, and according to present indications this date will see the outside of the buildings, at least, actually completed. The interiors will be finished up and the equipment for this new chemical plant installed during the summer. The Chemistry Department is planning to move into its new quarters before the beginning of the next college year and to commence regular class and laboratory work there next September...
...been sadly proved in the past that W. S. Gilbert's beautiful silliness that makes such alarming good sense when you come to think it over, and Arthur Sullivan's beguiling music can degenerate into oppressive bores. Mr. Ames sees to it that the stage keeps moving. His Mikado skips over huddles of prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding...
...book is filled with colorful people, rainbow scenery, amazing weather. The lean, kind, sandy figure of Kit Carson welcomes the Bishop at Taos. Navajos, Zuñis, Acomas, remnants of the cleanly pueblo tribes, move quietly about in smaller villages, vivid as their blankets and pottery, drawn with the patient accuracy of an archeologist. Cornelian hills circle Santa Fé, where the cathedral arises like a golden butte. Windstorms smother the bishop on the plains, cloudbursts drench him among the peaks...
Everywhere history is made to move in a living atmosphere, for that is the highest excellence of Miss Gather's writing, her mastery of intangibles. Just as the maturity of her mind has led her, in character-drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried...