Word: burrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andean Christ. After Santiago, the itinerary called for a special train to Santa Rosa de Los Andes (Chile), whence the narrow gauge Transandine Railway climbs up to burrow through the Cumbre tunnel at an altitude of 10,452 feet. Half a mile higher, on a ridge in the oldtime Cumbre pass, stands "Christ of the Andes," the peace statue which Chile and Argentine cast from their cannon after Edward VII of England arbitrated their last quarrel in 1902. "Peace to all nations" says that statue's pedestal...
These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...mail-clad mammal, order Edentata, family Dasypodidae, native to Central and South American plains and forests. The largest species reaches one yard in length. Nocturnal, omnivorous, armadillos do not fight but burrow rapidly or roll up into bony balls when attacked. Armadillos lately came to fame in the U. S., when one was presented to President Coolidge. The little known fact then came to light that the armadillo has young in litters of four, all of the same sex, be it male or female...
...confusion will never, can never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are too engrossed with surface delights to sense the bitterness or beauty of the depots. America is apparently devoid of the comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common sense. And if she must bury herself, it must be in real life, exactly as the American saga is doing. That the new saga lacks humor...
Such were the words of Mr. Barnard, a man far too human to say more, too kind to raise the hopes of those men in whose bodies burrow those minute, obscure carriers of death. But to medical men his clipped announcement made the fantastic whispers that had come to them seem duller than the garrulities of a midwife...