Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another time Mr. Powys had accused an African "Man of God" of stealing goats and had been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat...
...passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked the question that, on my soul, I was half inclined to believe him. I tell you in that darkening forest with the rustling of the tropical leaves about me and the indefinable stir of the oncoming night audible everywhere, it seemed more than possible that I was about to hear the authentic story of the origin of man." This may serve to illustrate, in a small measure, the eerie quality...
Dean of the coterie is Bruce Crane. He is exhibiting two canvases. Both embody the sort of delicate lyric treatment of wood scenes upon which his reputation rests-scenes having the atmosphere of a hazy, glamorous afternoon in the forest of Broceliande. There are other lyricists also who do very well with the same sort of thing-Frank Vincent DuMond, greeneries; William S. Robinson, mountain laurel in bloom; Guy Wiggins, birch saplings, crumbling walls. All this is the sympathetic rendering of local nature that is characteristic of Lyme exhibits. There are also artists who paint cattle, ballet-dancers, ships. Will...
...winds arose and the rain fell and the Sokie River flooded forth over the Onwentsia Golf Course at Lake Forest, Ill. The draggled women who were playing there for the Western Championship cleaned out their lockers at the clubhouse, bundled their powder puffs, dry stockings and extra hairpins over to the Shore Acres Club, farther up Lake Michigan, held their second and third round matches on its higher ground...
...Lake Forest, Ill., the Onwentsia links swarmed with 152 golfing Amazons beginning play for the Women's Western title, but Glenna had not rushed out to mingle with them. Champion Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, and National Champion Edith Cummings ruled the scene. Edith, who was raised amid Ouwentsia's daisies and knows every hole on the prairie, including those made by gophers, had little trouble navigating the rainsoaked course in 84, low medal...