Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drawings upon a rock wall, possibly made by heliolithic men. "The work of djinns," say the Tebus...
...They are," he said, "the most northern people in the world, yet they are just as keen as we are. They live, not in snow huts according to popular conception, but underground in rock houses...
After each case has been publicly presented, each of the Justices masters the printed record and arguments; the Justices consult the oracles in the stillness of their various studies, or under the foliage of Rock Creek Park. The Oracles...
...Stevens who, in real life, is known as Appanoose Jim to his fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood...
...Many marveled at this. "Who," they asked, "has at last discerned that the interest attending the feats of the clown and the lady rests on the expectation, nay, the hope, that they will be instantly devoured? Who has decided that, since it is so, the fever of those who rock with thrills at wild animal acts is not very different from that of the demobilized centurions who howled in the Roman hippodromes, or that of the sadistic Medes who jeered the gentle lion of Darius...