Word: torrents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words were spoken last week in Camden, N. J., by a man with a torrent of white beard, clad in loose-fitting, almost shabby clothing. The man was masquerading as Walt Whitman in Christopher Morley's tart one-act play, Walt. Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies...
...people of Melville went to bed. At daybreak next morning the Melville levee along the Atchafalaya gave way. Soon every street in Melville was a roaring torrent. Scrambling from their houses, lacking time even to clothe themselves, men, women and children half-waded, half-swam to unbroken sections of the levee. Five hours later Melville was from 10 to 15 feet under water with most of its houses sweeping in fragments toward the Gulf...
...very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. . . ." This line of Hamlet--or rather its general content, for an exact quotation would be a bit much to ask from one who has never taken English 2--occurred to the Vagabond yesterday as he looked at some drawings, illustrations for the Book of Job, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and others, by William Blake...
...with two skylights. For relaxation he played the victrola and practiced on the cornet. In 1923 he gave a series of lectures at the League on magazine illustrating. He has drawn pictures for The Desert Healer by E. M. Hull, Find the Woman by Arthur Somers Roche, The Torrent by Blasco...
...arrived by motor at our first camp from which our actual expedition was to set out. Early the next morning we left the car and with an excellent packer-guide, saddle horses, and two pack mules, we continued up the narrow canyon of Cottonwood Creek, a roaring mountain torrent heading in numerous lakes under Mt. Langley. The trail wound steeply up between pine trees and rocks for nine miles, when we emerged from the canyon onto a sloping plateau at about 10,000 feet elevation, where the stream ran gently through pine forests and meadows and was followed six miles...