Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief did not frequent art galleries, nor stand enrapt before a masterpiece, but he did appreciate loveliness?a rose, a stunning woman, a birch tree, a sunset. . . When in romantic and florid terms he was wont to tell of the dream [of a ducal estate in Austria he thought of buying, complete with 'superb art gallery'] ... he always saved the art gallery for the climax, and when he came to that his voice would take on a note almost of reverence as he told of the wonderful gallery and the priceless masterpieces...
...Next year in a grueling three days five of us took out over four hundred cross-logs. I really know that trail now and love it; for with the work went the association with the crew, when we packed, sawed, and chopped together, ate and slept together, saw the sunset together, and talked together around the campfire...
...would give the sporting writers a much needed new stock phrase Instead of the proverbial "crimson sunset" now it can be the crimson sunrise and the cold gray dawn...
...Quitting-to preach." Thus Dr. James L. Gordon, eminent San Francisco Congregational pastor, clears, in the December Sunset Magazine, the mystery of his recent resignation from church ties. Dr. Gordon plans to establish a free lance pulpit in "some metropolitan city" where he can reach 3,000 at a time. He loves to preach. He will have no business notices at his meetings, "no joinings, no subscribing, no creeds." Said he: "The stage cannot supplant the pulpit and the newspaper cannot permanently overshadow it. The authority of the human voice, in its appeal to conscience, cannot be eliminated and must...
...presence of so much natural beauty in the world, in the sky, in the fields, in the flaming radiance of a sunset makes an aesthetic man thoughtful. Beethoven called a sunset "Nature's praise to God.' The spectacle of an artist's life is almost as remarkable as a sunset and just as divinely inspired...