Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie...
Third Game was delayed for a day by rain, harassed when it finally began by wind and cold, which chilled President Coolidge and pinched his face. After half a dozen innings of erratic baseball, Manager Harris called his pitcher, Alex Ferguson, out of the game and sent in midget Nemo Leibold to bat for him. Nemo, a lefthander, shuffled and glared until Pitcher Kremer ( Pittsburgh) walked him. Poker-faced Goose Goslin stepped to the plate, swung high, swung low, like a man who would hit at anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice...
...game was marked throughout by a lack of teamplay, caused to a great extent by a high wind which caused difficulty in the aiming of shots, and by a slippery field. Two extra five-minute periods failed to settle the victory one way or the other...
...that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity. He left as many wrought stones as a volcano -a giant's spawn, beyond precise inventory; countless groups of lovers, nymphs, Naiads, Tritons, Muses...
...doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...