Word: colonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums...
That means that French officers and soldiers will continue suavely to educate Indo-China, using the maxim that the congai is more pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...
Into the breach jumped Colonist Walter Leighton Clark. A comparative newcomer to Stockbridge, Colonist Clark had been a businessman. Not until he was over 50 did he begin to paint. Last week, his portrait of beautiful Louise Osborne, herself a musician and a Stockbridge colonist, was judged among the best. In 1923, his growing interest in art led him to found the Grand Central Art Galleries in the Manhattan railroad station. He wished to offer ambitious U. S. artists an opportunity to exhibit their work without sending it abroad...
...Colonist Clark said he would move the Casino, transform it into the headquarters of the Three Arts Association. It should be dedicated to music, drama, art. He ran into difficulties. Nervous colonists, fearing for velvety grass, symmetrical trees, refused to allow him to move it bodily. Accordingly, he pulled it down and moved it stick by stick to its new setting farther down the street. It became, the Berkshire Playhouse...
...others were not so familiar. Colonist Clark had drawn on the resources of his Manhattan gallery. In the old Casino days, only the colonists took their masterpieces to the exhibitions. Last week, many an artist was represented whose connection with Stockbridge had been a fleeting visit to the Berkshires...