Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not permit a brush fire to destroy a forest if a little digging will correct its spread...
...writer of fiercely topical satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
...Norfolk Broads, the better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
Hollywood? "It's a place for very, very old people to go and die," said Waugh. Everything is just imitation except the cemeteries. "They are the only real thing ... I spent most of my spare time in the cemetery. I very much enjoyed Forest Lawn. I loved the music. . . ." Now, aglow with the memory of one of California's most sumptuous spectacles, he planned a sort of novelette with a cemetery setting. A poet who flops as a writer for the cinema (British, said Waugh) gets a job in a dog cemetery. He falls for a girl...
...Women's singles: steady Pauline Betz (TIME, Sept. 2), repeating her last fall's victory at Forest Hills over No. 4 ranking Doris Hart...