Word: salt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, however, the failure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to function properly when the aviator attempted to fly in it from Washington to Manhattan, prompted Mr. Mitchell to further criticisms. After maintaining that the Spirit of St. Louis suffered exposure to corrosive salt air while being transported home on the U. S. cruiser Memphis ("there was no excuse for not keeping this plane safe and dry"), Mr. Mitchell added that the plane was under naval care at Washington. Calling the plane's inability to take Colonel Lindbergh to New York...
...main, Saltacres is a study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements...
...second part, time passes. "The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long night seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. The saucepan had rusted and the mat decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages...
Complacent, President Herbert W. Reherd administers Westminster College, Presbyterian institution at Salt Lake City, Utah. Enterprising, he regularly advertises his school in the Presbyterian, one of the denomination's weekly magazines. Blatant, considering himself the missionary to the Mormons, he had this advertisement printed in the Presbyterian last week...
...trainloads of Presbyterians, who will be on their way to the 139th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America at San Francisco the end of May, have decided to break their journey at Salt Lake City to study the Mormon field where Dr. Reherd labors...