Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty-one years ago a 17-year-old boy at Dexter Park, Chicago, pitched for a baseball team called the "Forest Citys" of Rockford, Ill. and defeated an eastern team, the "Nationals," by the then not so peculiar score of 29 to 23. The boy's name was Albert G. Spalding...
...long in penury. But they sowed cultural seeds in their children. Jo Davidson can remember slaving at an ironing board and reading a book between strokes. He studied art in Paris at the Beaux Arts, and in the U. S. with Sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Painter George de Forest Brush...
...Peribonka, French-Canadian village in the forest-river country of northern Quebec, Maria and Samuel Chapdelaine (of whose happiness Louis Hemon wrote) still keep their little store and dining room. But no longer are they the happiest people of that Peribonka valley. Happier is the Crippled Lady. She sits each day on her veranda serenely waiting for her man Paul's daily messages, for his week-end visits. He is now clearing the forest with 15 men. Nearby is the Mistassini dam, which he had built with...
...father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting...
...bodies, blood-maddened, sex-maddened, god-maddened, drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat...