The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little colu...mn of theatrical news, is a lost soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stand on top of our back steps and breathe the rich air--... a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail. She jabs her wedge-head in a cup of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail, and will not scare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural ho...mestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never have anything to do with the near surviving representatives of anyone whose name appears in the death column of the Times as... having "passed away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodie...s that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the Unit...ed Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they "must appear in short clothes or no engagement." Below a Gospel Guide colu...mn headed, "Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow," was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney's California Concert Hall, patrons "bucked the tiger" under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular "lady" gambler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He types his laboured column--weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn:... Spare, editor, to condemn These dry leaves of his autumn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes o...f our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »