Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Saturday will see a canoe race to South Natick, and some not so addicted to boating will climb Mt. Monadnock and later stop in at Nelson, New Hampshire, for an old fashioned barn dance. On Sunday, there will be an expedition to Concord, following in, the tracks of Paul Revere, which will be made in conjunction with the Radcliffe Outing Club. Further events listed include fishing, hiking, late-season skiing, sailing, and clambakes...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...these as in all her elegant, strange writings Elizabeth Madox Roberts combines the qualities of a dancer, a painter, an anthropologist and a woman. As a dancer she handles space and motion with uncommon delicateness: the void of a deserted mansion, the soft shiftings-together of barn beasts, the motions of two small sisters who, with entwined arms, "pulled and twisted each other about as one creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural...
Greenwich Village's American Contemporary Artists Gallery nestles like a hayloft hideaway in the eaves of the Village Barn cabaret. There last week William Cropper, U. S. leftism's No. 1 painter, gave his annual one-man show. A persistent sapper and gnawer at the roots of capitalism (for years the ace cartoonist of the old Liberator, the newer New Masses), Painter Gropper turns out each year some 50 oils, countless lithographs and drawings of fat capitalists, hungry workers, woe-heeled sharecroppers, bashed and bleeding soldiers. His highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from...
...beaten Playgoer's path on Joy Street near the Charles Street Subway the New England Rep. is settling down in its new home, the entirely remodeled Barn Theatre. Making best possible use of a small playhouse and limited technical effects, the Repertory players are providing Boston with a steady fare of good productions...