Word: sand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...
...great trouble," he says simply, "in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...
...school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live in New Orleans, Cuba, Europe, Philadelphia. About 1918 he sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright, Fombombo, Red Sand. He is a sociologist only by indirection, an artist by accident. He is humorous. He dislikes work. Sound physically, he writes in an invalid's chair, between frequent naps...
...lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs...
...data available leads to an obvious conclusion. America is wealthy, powerful, and politically-minded. She holds a strategic position in the economic world and possesses enough political ability to exploit it. And her journalists respond with unpremeditated "hurrahs". While the rope of sand holds, this new "Condescension in Americans" will retain its still plebeian savoir faire...