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...hard won, she saw lives as fretful incidents and watched her wide horizon for the serene sickle moons of many harvests yet to come. The Significance. Persons who pontificate on the "phases" of literature say: "Realism has crossed the Potomac." If that is so (doubtful), it did not wade, swim or fly. It was ferried. As an experiment, Dorinda is interesting enough, compelling to the mind; and the soil she is set in- Negroes, cowpeas, broom sedge- smells properly. But no amount of fertilizing will remove the agricultural tag: "Hardy Lady Farmer in the South, transplanted." The Author. Miss Ellen...
Confusion was caused when the men tried to swim instead of holding to the shell, Rideout, muffled in heavy coxswain's togs, sank several times but was saved by Theopold and Pond. He was unconscious for some time, but was resting comfortably at Stillman infirmary last night...
...Jennings, a web-footed Canadian sportsman, decided that he would swim from Toronto to Manhattan by way of Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River (400 miles) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of peace between the U. S. and Canada.* He expects to make several stopovers en route...
Nicola Fechin has painted various things, among them two fried eggs. Yellow as Tuscan florins, complacent, succulent, they swim in the glory that is grease; worshippers, gazing upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which...
When the gobbet awoke, it had a skin. It could not swim, except ver- tically, like a puppy treading water, until its head grew heavy. Then it took on a tight, corrugated armor-corset. Blue flint chippings-teeth-hedged the emery-paper tongue. Filiform barbels, for probing mud, sprouted under the chin. By this time, the gobbet was recognizable as a fish, a young Sturgeon, Sturly...