Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing over the hill". The pastoral images are there again...
...special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would be an opportunity of a lifetime...
Served as counsel for U. S. before the High Tribunal at Halifax to settle a controversy over the rights of Great Britain and the U. S. in Behring Sea...
...GLENCAIRN-Four early sea stories of Eugene O'Neill done with all the salt and tar and rum that can be collected on a stage...
Still are the waters about Rio de Janeiro, deep are they and clear. Be- cause of their stillness, their clarity, to Rio last week repaired Zarh H. M. Pritchard,* painter. He paints pictures of the deep sea. Where the coral spreads its fan, where sea-grass lifts and sways to currents vague as wind, and blunt-nosed fishes ply, this way and that, their white bellies agleam, their eyes phosphorescent, there goes Painter Pritchard in a kind of diving suit. His pictures are hung in the Natural History Museum, Manhattan, in many European galleries. Says...