Word: sprawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the luxurious Executive Mansion Governor Murray wears his hat all the time. He greets all women visitors as "Sister." He does nothing for fun, except to sprawl out on a bed or couch where he likes to give interviews. Mrs. Murray, a quiet dark woman, keeps much in the background, paints oil portraits of her Indian ancestors, has a social secretary, goes to a few bridge parties. She seldom accompanies her husband around the State or nation on his speaking trips. She did go to California with him last year and then her friends gave her a "bridal shower...
...Vagabond is upon the horns of a dilemma. Logically speaking, he wants to sprawl upon some roof without many clothes, thereby absorbing the health-giving rays of Old Sol, or he wants to listen to a lecture every hour of the day. He cannot do both, hence .... And the only possible solutions he can think of would create philosophical or ethical fallacies. Political thought brings to mind arbitration Bask in the sun for an hour, then go to a lecture for an hour and so on. This presents no difficulties. Anywhere, probably the lecturers are suffering from the vacation...
Madeira. When revolution seemed to threaten the little Portuguese isle, the "Lion of Poland" showed a tendency to yawn, to sprawl his bulk with even more abandon upon small wicker chairs...
...girdled green there bask the plains Where, with his timeless smiles. And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless...
Etruscan Hero's Tomb. Princess Luciano Bonaparte owns land at Vulci, Etruscan community near Rome. Etruscan tombs underlie the whole vicinity. Recently, watching her peasants plowing, she saw a yoke of oxen sprawl into the ground. After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs. Chief among them was that of an Etruscan hero, shrouded in blue and white gauze, with his little possessions around him, even a branch of laurel, still green. A coin in the tomb dated it about the 3rd century...