Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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15th. Lay pleasantly till 8, watching the snow "as Jove," methought, "descending from his Tower" come softly down. Thence up to draw the window but staid looking and caught a few perfect snowflakes on my gown. And Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this...
...held Feb. 21st; but I must confess I do think the poster which doth announce the affair be in poor taste. This I did tell some ones but all they did say was: "We don't expect you to bring your Grandmother!" Alas, I back to the Tower to lick my wounds...
Whence comes this seeming prestige that vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
Hail! doughty men of Dunster, men of the blood-capped tower of Dunster, have thy flood-lamps burnt out? Replace them! Replace them! Let not thy mind be dimmed by any weak blue haze. And ye able men of Adams, men with hearts of gold, rise above the ethereal blue and shine! Even though ye be a House divided, ye cannot fall. Turn on the lights. Assert thyselves! Ho! eager men of Eliot, ye Green Knights of metrical romance, where is thy chivalry, thy honor? Gawain is thy peer, no blue haired fairy of Pinochio. Light up! Light...
Whereupon, I back to the Tower to read again Burton's "Kasidah" and much pleased by the thought...