...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me whe...n I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his u...naccustomed possession of a large roll of bills by saying that someone pushed it over the transom while he slept. The expression "It came over the transom," to explain any unusual good fortune, is part of local folklore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had hi...m wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What does headquarters think these guys came over here for, a sewing circle? They go up playing for keeps. Cops and robbers with r...ocks in the snowballs. Brass knuckles and lead pipes and a roughneck conviction they can lick any man in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the shade went up And the ambulance came crashing through the dust... Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars, And the iceberg slowly sank In the volcano and the sea ran far away Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:... And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell; The duckes cryden as men would them quell;... The geese for feare flewen over the trees; Out of the hive came the swarm of bees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sleep with two cats and the touch of their fur brushing against my naked skin is among the most beautiful sensations I can think... of. They calm me, these animals who could be wild but choose not to be, who go outside to kill and lounge around, then come home every day for the food I provide and for my touch. They bridge me over to that animal country from which I came, a place in which the body poses no questions, only needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances th...rough the ether. We used to feel the awe of the distant stars upon us. All that led to was the eighty-eight naval guns, ersatz, and the night air-raids over cities. A magnificent spectacle. After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Celestial roundsmen under the aegis of the 'New England Watch and Ward Society' inaugurated a virulent campaign against 'lewd and ...indecent' books and plays. What is salacity? It was like the time-honored stickler: How old is Ann? Other cities indulged in loud guffaws over the antics of the Boston censors as the latter grew hotter and hotter and more and more bothered over the perplexing problem. 'Banned in Boston' came to be the novelist's and dramatist's dream of successful publicity--'a natural' in advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »