Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true nonsense verse. Lewis Carroll's technique, and informs us triumphantly of the awful libel that the author of "Alice" may have been the inventor of cross-word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes trying to look...
...mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating...
...instance, of a corrupt church blocking the road which leads up form slavery in "our sister republic on the South", or of extra-territoriality acquired by the "right" of superior force in "Asia, in China, in Nicaragua." Mr. Wilbur may fool himself into thinking he can stop the wind by tilting at windmills. He will not fool history...
Throughout England this great wind, so easily overcome by the airplane, blew down 150 telephone lines, blew up floods from several rivers, blew a steeplejack off the spire of St. Helen's Church, London, killing him instantly, injured 300 persons, killed 19 beside the poor steeplejack...
...wind alone do disciples of the late William Jennings Bryan propose to keep his memory green. Ever since the "trumpet blast" that was "sounded for rallying the believing hosts of the world around their faith," i.e. the Scopes anti-evolution trial (precipitated by anti- Fundamentalists)-ever since the Great Commoner died "on the battlefield" (Dayton, Tenn.), hard-headed men have been promoting a Bryan Memorial University (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925). On a 26-acre tract across the road from the house in which Mr. Bryan breathed his last, this "sacred enterprise" is already under construction. It may be ready...