Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence back to the Tower and very glad to open some letters and see I am taken in at Oxford, October next. Yet I have not heard much of Wadham College save it looks a pretty ruin with fresh gardens. This is a virtue I like very much for it will be fine in the Spring, and did not many a rich philosophy begin in a garden? By and by comes ___ and, all a bubble, brings me his album; a mighty fine job it is, yet, bless my soul, for an address book ten dollars 'is very steep...
...genius ruin themselves for some fantasy, or for their families, that's why there are so few that succeed. There are really hundreds of thousands of men of genius in the world." This minority opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...
...however, Julian was learning fast. He learned by working for their neighbor, Henry, a dirty Pennsylvania Dutchman, but a good farmer, with a periodic weakness for the bottle. Thanks to Henry's precepts and sober example, Julian was able to save his father's farm from absolute ruin, but it was hard going...
...diggers explored a fort called Cahercommaun, a ruin of massive masonry on the brink of a precipice, built about 900 A. D. Inside this were walled compartments into which livestock could have been driven to safety when marauders approached. In the citadel was a silver and gold brooch, and a skull impaled on an iron hook, as if the head had been on display after being cut off. Another find of this period was a gaming board, with rows of holes to receive pegs, a circle marking the centre hole. A long, quizzical face was carved...
...those who prophesied the U.S.S.R. was heading for bankruptcy and ruin, the Webbs say: After almost 20 years it is still here, and even its eagerest enemies admit that it is strengthening its hold. And will it spread? Again the Webbs say: It will. How? When? Where? They shake their old heads and do not answer...