Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing this news, Sargent's many admirers were alarmed. His fame is likely to last longer than his pictures, they lamented. Others winked at each other. He is lucky, they seemed to say. If his paintings go to seed quickly enough, they may not be forced to outlive his reputation...
...very short story Mr. J. E. Barnett's "Fern Seed" possesses a degree of intensity that is admirable. Perhaps one does not understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
What child is not, at one time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet...
...Starting in February, we will abandon all 'popular' or commercial plays, and put on such productions as 'Hedda Gabler,' 'The Three Sisters,' 'The Veil of Contempt,' and 'A Grain of Mustard Seed...
...assume in advance that he is too dangerous a character to admit to these shores because of his Communist beliefs would offer an affront to the British people. The way to spread such doctrines is to make martyrs of the spreaders. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church in more ways than one. I do not want to see the right of free speech more abridged on American than on British soil...