Word: withers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout the dry Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva...
...Authoress Dix reviews them as they lie, wrapped in their several irremediable miseries. With a Chekhovian eye for the follies and pettinesses that have jockeyed her characters into their blind alleys, Authoress Dix, hitherto a writer of juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep...
Danube Conference, Sympathetic London pressfolk were distressed to see their Prime Minister's optimism wither and fade a few hours after he had made welcome, in the cream & gold Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing St., the members of the Danube Conference at which Britain, France, Germany and Italy sat in. Plainly, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, snapping-eyed Italian Foreign Minister, was smoldering with anger and so was Germany's Dr. Bernhard W. von Bülow, a nephew of the late great Prince & Chancellor. Honest Scot MacDonald was made from the first to feel that his prior conversations with Premier...
Everything goes well until Josiah, the old Negro who pimps for her, gets blood poisoning. Rather than send him to the free U. S. hospital, which the Negroes dread, Cherie gives up all her savings to have him treated privately. Josiah dies, and her hopes of seeing France wither. But there is still one hope in Tsamatsui. a Japanese merchant, whose last agent for Canal espionage has been shot. He offers her $200 for a few observations. Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France...
...modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much to say; prefers Hemingway, Frost, Edna Millay. The book is a reliable and compendious guidebook, though its readers will sometimes suffer from a discomforting suspicion that its author's opinions will never wither from lack...