Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ducky. In Stony Brook, L. I., Merton Powell swore he saw some ducks pull an arrow out of the middle of a mallard, which then flew off with its friends...
Frost first read his "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Night" to illustrate the truth of this thesis, and from that point the readings went largely whenever the poet's fancy took him. "West Running Brook" and two shorter poems followed in order...
...greatest printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced some 8,000 lithographs, of which some 7,500 survive as nostalgic relics of 19th-Century Americana. From the largest private collection of Currier & Ives, owned by Harry T. Peters, Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, a volume of reproductions (Doubleday, Doran; $5) has now been published. The color plates are not as good as they might be but the book gives an excellent cross section of the flaming disasters, idyllic farm scenes, sentimental moralities, spanking race horses, political cartoons, Mississippi steamboats and vigorous frontier...
Once more John L. Lewis has proved himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members...
...draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some 70,000 artists (including Alexander Brook, John LaGatta, Eugene Speicher, McClelland Barclay, Norman Rockwell) learned their bones and muscles in his quiet, methodical classes...