Word: windswept
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...reads the shingle over the door of a little inn at Siasconset, Mass., on cool, sandy, windswept Nantucket Island. Within, the sessions of the 'Sconset Summer School have been going on for many weeks. The school was founded in 1922 as "The School of Opinion" by Frederic C. Howe, political economist, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Immigration. Its first three periods of the 1924 season were devoted to Psychology and Psychoanalysis, to Art and Literature, to Politics and International Affairs. Last week the fourth session, on Opinion, began...
Cool, sandy, windswept Nantucket Island...
...last round, Champion Bobby Jones had finished with a grand score of 300; William Mehlborn, 301; Walter Hagen, R. Cruikshank, MacDonald Smith had tied at 303. The slender-wristed one's score was 286 and the last difficult hole was before him, a hole with a dear little windswept pond in front, a pond in which the last player's ball had found its watery grave, a wind that was decidedly annoying. He was a bit nervous...
...criticisms that merge into a coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest, the wayside inns far better than his own front parlor...