Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
...Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition. After meeting her, he hurried from California to Manhattan and got a job on the American Magazine. In 1915 he found time to write The Amateur, followed shortly by Salt (of young men). After fighting abroad, he wrote Brass (of marriage) and Bread (of business women), both of them big sellers, big cinemas. "This writer's life," says his motherly wife, "has been what, I suppose, all would-be writers like to dream that life might be." It is "full...
Interest, it is a platitude to remark, is to life what salt is to eggs. So, although I do not as a rule attend afternoon lectures, particularly in the spring, I intend today to hear Professor McDougal at Emerson D lecture on that interesting subject in Psychology...
...there will be such magazines. Just as there are copies of Voltaire and of Rabelais and of the countless others who have written with a bit of salt in their ink. For that is an angle of life. And to live some people must see life from all of its angles, just as others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged...
...Debating Union has finally decided for time and eternity that Mr. Mencken is worth reading, that he is a force, that he has a message. So one dare not read his editorial on education in the March "Mercury" with the usual grain of salt. Nor need one. For Mr. Mencken wandering through mazes of contradictions and losing himself in occasional thickets of wisecrackery does arrive at a definite and exact description of existing phenomena. He believes that there is not sufficient training in thought per se afforded by the usual American college education. And he is no doubt right...