Word: caveness
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...Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that Gray had been his accomplice, that he had killed both men in a three-cornered scuffle a fortnight after the abduction...
...cinema the youngsters perched on the backs of the folded seats until their teacher explained they could be let down. They saw Tom Sawyer, wept when Tom and Becky were lost in the cave, failed to laugh at any part...
...Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great cave with Becky-these are still the high ups & low downs of Tom's story...
...organizing type, collected a band of about 20 free spirits, set them to robbing chicken coops and stealing horses and buggies. They lived in a cave at a place called Blue Rock and every night they rolled a great stone across the entrance...