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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...
...limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years, The American Songbag...
...youths were being passed from shoulder to shoulder along the crowd. Both were sunburnt; both grinned broadly. While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...
Salzburg hoteliers ran out of goats' cheese, black bread and beds. Celebrated visitors, unable to procure respectable lodgings or to endure the hard cots and sunburnt goitres of the local peasantry, appealed for aid to Herr Reinhardt...