Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile Margaret, the other immortal visitant, having lost her mate, took shelter with a college boy who had given her a lift on the road, and let him become her lover for a few days. When she began to worry about the shortening time she escaped, took up the search for John again. She found him, and the jailer's daughter was sent packing. The two immortals took refuge in an abandoned house in the woods, made the most of the days summer had left them. When the final midnight came, John disappeared as he had said he would...
...future he said: "I shall do just what my wife wants me to, as you married men know. . . . I've told her to buy me a bit of a bungalow near a graveyard and I shall sit me on a tombstone and read epitaphs in search of a new philosophy. . . . When I'm not reading tombstones . . . I'll get me to the nearest pub and try to forget...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
Said Dean Virginia Crocheron Gilder-It has been a varied adventure from ringing doorbells at strange houses search of a few dollars, and being almost turned out as an impostor to securing two millions from one generous donor...
Certainly it is extremely desirable for Mr. Agee to use striking words rather than trite expressions, but it is very unfortunate that he has allowed this search for the unusual to interfere so greatly with the flow of thought in verse. It is largely the result of this fault that so many of his sonnets strike no note of response in the reader. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Agee's future efforts will turn rather toward a development of the fine imagination and careful verse of "Ann Garner" than to this individualistic mania which threatens to injure...