Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Manchester ("Doomington") Grammar School, Louis Golding was precocious among prodigies. At Queen's College, Oxford, he was an ostentatious aesthete, a mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
...Aida, Tenor Bernardo de Muro (TIME, June 1) as Radames, in the first of a series of open air concerts to be given by the Manhattan Opera Company. Priests in flowing diapers, soldiers in black and gold, caparisoned camels, slow-stepping horses, passed with solemn unreality across the shallow scaffolding. Critics and adults cheered; the sight intrigued them; the music pleased their ears; but still the children murmured. "Where," they asked, "are the creatures which the producers assured us would take an important part in this spectacle of vocal pantalooning which, owing to their absence, seems dull to the point...
...Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely enough, to fulfill her. Rico looked anxiously after other women...
Then Mr. Beebe sailed towards the Caribbean and, within the Leeward Islands, began to investigate Saba Bank in shallow waters 36 to 2,700 feet deep. A green and yellow octopus, an irridescent bronze colored fish found living inside a giant red sea-cucumber, butterfly fish, trigger fish and porcupine fish were procured as well as whole colonies of coral and sponges...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water-snake, thoughtless creatures that swam in the shallow seas that covered the world in time's twilight until, stranded on limacious, shelving beaches left by those waters as the sun sucked them away, they died and turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale...