Word: dawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...
...hand, slips the guard, and makes for the sea, casting off garments by the way. Easily they swim to her yacht, and soon are steaming down the coast to safety. The last hours of the night they spend in chaste though earnest conversation on deck, and at dawn he leaves...
Belgians had a second chance to cry "milksop!" last week, when famed Art Patron Otto Kahn resigned as a member of Manhattan's unofficial Advisory Film Committee because it had sponsored the showing of the British cinema drama Dawn (TIME, March 12, 19), which depicts the shooting of Nurse Cavell in Belgium with realistic Teutonico furore. When the film was shown at Brussels it was received with tranquil approval. In England the Baldwin Cabinet made every effort to have Dawn suppressed; but it was finally approved by the London municipal authorities and shown, after emasculating cuts, without untoward incident...
Naturally enough, the first half of the book, dealing with the astronomy, geology and biology of the earth's creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking...
...Walks in Beauty runs true to type; but it is a sincere book and one that has hunger in it, an important quality and a rare one in flatland fiction. When Author Dawn Powell misdescribes...