Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sings the changes of the cycle in the life of a woman-one stony, first, as the reluctant earth, fearing the fire that moves, the force that brings lilacs out of a dead stalk whose root, fed by death, feeds death again in the carrion ground. Her career is conventional. She loves, marries and, dying, bears her child...
...architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
...Charles Ringling are the men who keep the five rings spinning. Once there were seven Ringlings ringing; five are dead. John and Charles now run the business. In the old days, John was a clown, appeared twice daily under the big top, sang, with extraordinary results, a ditty entitled Root, Hog, or Die. He has been accredited the shrewdest of the seven circus boys; when they put on their first show, in 1882, in McGregor, Iowa, where they had been born, he was the one who collected the admission.? In 1907, they bought all of the Barnum and Bailey...
...lauded the laying out of that road, the planning and organization of the Panama Canal. Roland S. Morris, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan, extolled the administration of the Trans-Siberian Railway during the War. Then French, Chinese and Japanese Ambassadors, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Elihu Root. Robert Lansing and many another had sent complimentary telegrams, letters...
...Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York, singing on the great day of her life...