Word: spading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilled gardener does a rosebush he is transplanting: what the world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower?she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul...
Friends. Some admired, some loved Keats; all were, at the last, either stupid or faithless. Miss Lowell, turn- ing them over with her spade, knows them better than he ever...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
Hagen vs. Walker. "WORLD'S UNOFFICIAL CROWN TO BE CONTESTED," blared the headlines. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Cyril Walker, 1924 U. S. Open Champion, was to play 72 holes with sleek Walter Hagen, 1924 British Open Champion. Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form. Into that pit plunged Cyril Walker and thus did sleek Wal- ter become unofficial golf champion of the world. Hagen, at the end, was "17 and 15". Of 57 holes played, Walker won but 7, tied...
...Africa climate on white men, who, it appears, must inevitably take either to drink or to native women. The subject is not one which lends itself to dainty dialogue, but Mr. Gordon exercises commendable restraint. Moreover, he proves conclusively that the proprieties are offended far less by calling a spade a spade than by hinting darkly of certain unnamed agricultural implements...