Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University of Arkansas School of Medicine Little Rock...
There is, it is practically safe to say, no one who at certain times is not willing to leav the rock bottom of daily life for an excursion among the clouds. For such a one at such a time "Love and the Ladies." All that is necessary is that one surrender himself to Mrs. Abbott's imagination and timid, flowing style, and he will without doubt spend a few most delicious and restful hours
...within a month in that country, a severe shock having been recorded on March 22. The exact location of the disturbance will be known in a week, when records of seismographs throughout the country have been compared in Washington. The double quake was probably caused by two strata of rock slipping simultaneously...
...delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right up to the moment the balloting begins and "potential" strength is demonstrated, the powers-that-are in the G. O. P. would remain poised upon the Rock of Plymouth, able to "draft" Calvin Coolidge again, if need be, or to dictate his successor to the deadlocked boomers of Hoover and Lowden...
...paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe. Recently he has been back again in Manhattan, painting cars and trolleys, houses with lighted doors and windows, loafers, little girls playing in the streets. The paintings which he sold, through the Kraushaar Galleries, to the anonymous plutocrat, include examples of his work...