Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he died, battered ashore by tempest, there was a sweet singing from a spring in the sand. It told Sturly that Death cannot be the end of Life. It sang of reincarnation and the cycles of Life. It sang that Life...
Houses of Sand borrowed all it could from Madame Butterfly, including soft off-stage harmonies, and failed to repay the loan. It added certain novelties from which the edge was worn by unreality. The twist awards the Japanese heroine to the American hero (unknown to him, his mother was a Jap girl). Before this sweet solution can release the audience, there are six scenes in and about Manhattan, beginning with the meeting of the chief participants at a Far East bazaar in Forest Hills. The performers were generally apt but the play is apt to end presently in the storehouse...
Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...actually shocked the staid old traditions both at Minnesota and at Michigan. His boyish, unblushing, personality was irresistible to all who came into contact with him. In a speech made shortly after assuming the presidency of the University of Michigan he described himself as "just a human being with sand in his gizzard". No President has ever held such popularity as Dr. Burton enjoyed at Michigan. The world has lost a great educator, an inspirational leader, and a true American of the finest type...
...cigarette is a small thing: so is a match. Both are smaller still after being burnt, but, as the poet says, "Little drops of water, little grains of sand,' etc. If we carry on the conceit, the purpose of my letter immediately becomes apparent. It is supposed to be hard enough to begin with to get students into class-rooms. Certainly, then, it is illogical that we should have to reach them by wading a moat of cigarettes and scaling a wall of matches...