Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, as everyone knows, the rain and wind gods conspired with Neptune, wiped the "Magic City" from...
...EAST WIND - Amy Lowell - Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). This second of the three volumes of poems left for posthumous publication by Amy Lowell is as impersonal as the first volume (What's O'Clock?, 1925) was personal. It contains 13 narratives, mostly in the free, conversational verse that Miss Lowell adapted as a net to catch the crabbed dialect of her much-cherished New England. That dialect imposed restrictions upon her crystalline and pyrotechnic fancy, but only in the matter of actual words. When a New Englander needs an image for swarming bees he may not bethink...
Santa Barbara knew him in its sunny winters. In the summers he repaired to an old fashioned cottage on the oceanward end of Long Island, at East Hampton, lingering there till autumn fogs moved through the scrub-oak and laurels and the wind blew cold over bright dunes. This year he went late to East Hampton, for burial...
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock...
...earthquake, not wind, last week rocked the chair of Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, personal representative in the Philippines of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY, April 19, July 19 et seq. THE CABINET) as he dined with Mrs. Thompson in a Manila hotel. "Hm-m-m," said Mrs. Thompson, "an earthquake." "Well, we can't help that," answered the Colonel. "Pass the olives." The next day Col. Thompson clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like...