Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
...University of London has its business offices in South Kensington, a college in Bloomsbury, two colleges on the Strand. It is as if the University of Chicago were strewn about from Ravenswood to White City and out to Oak Park, or as if Columbia University were dissociated into Bronx, Battery and Brooklyn units...
...Haven the life of a chorine has become even more strenuous as college stalwarts have strewn her histrionic path with indecorously decorative chocolate almonds. And though the oddity of the occasion impressed the audience as it depressed the chorus, it cannot sanely be considered a precedent for future generations. Nor can the novel method of resisting religious discipline adopted yesterday in the same college when gum erred from its primrose path to the ever moving bridgework and settled into the locks of the chapel doors...
...eminence among U. S. playwrights, the reason being that his characters have been chosen right at the theatre's ticket-window instead of, as is O'Neill's custom, out of a primitive and hence foreign environment like a barge, a jungle, a boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than ever. We are used to seeing rivers dredged but it is appalling to behold excavations in the front lawn...
...pieces of automobile from his window and shop. Indeed he is now building new steps to withstand the assaults of duelling autoists. The old ones supported many a truck in its expiring moments. No Sunday passes without leaving its tell of broken glass and bits of nuts and bolts strewn all the way from Arthur's door to Russell Hall...