Word: sunburnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disconcerted students, sunburnt, half-blinded, slapping mosquitoes, protecting their easels from Portuguese children, tried vainly to work eyes and ears into their pictures, complained that it was like painting with a trowel. They were embarrassed by Boston sightseers who, revolted by the "horrible, featureless, formless" shapes they painted, called them "mudheads." But they were impressed because Hawthorne seemed indifferent whether they stayed or left, spared nobody...
...historically dear to Rome. In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested by Franciscan missions in these towns and for 1,000 miles along the Pacific Coast. The mission of San Gabriel...
...newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty of the U. S. in Slabs of the Sunburnt West...
Over the farms of the middle west, over those sunburnt and dreary acres which have lain in the hands of one family for generations, there is a spirit of contentment, of satisfaction with the ways of God, which convinces the natives of the Bible Belt that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from...
Minnow Rawls had one more surprise left. She clambered onto the 10-ft. springboard, began manipulating her tiny sunburnt person toward the water as though she were impersonating the knife in a game of mumblety-peg. A brilliant half-gaynor helped her get the points she needed to win the event, 78.64 to 77.75, from goldilocked Georgia Coleman, U. S. diving champion since...