Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...windows of great shops buckled and burst, streets were strewn with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
...heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come out to see the gladiator's show. But from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon the failing charge. . . . The Significance. "What America needs is a good five cent cigar"-and not till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln...
...movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital "R". It is all rather amusing, however, and much better than a great deal of the pother we are now served on the silver screen...
...Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details of flooors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning afters from nicotine orgies. The alumnae had no comeback; they meekly agreed to this drastic prohibition...
According to the reports, all the type was either melted or strewn about the ruins of the gutted building. This type, which represented the entire publication, had been completely proof-read and was all ready to be locked in the forms when the fire occurred. The Van Dyke Company is completely disrupted and is doing no work at all. The Yale Daily News, formerly published in the Van Dyke plant, is now being printed in another shop...