Word: forested
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...most important member of the team is Writer Winthrop Sargeant, who has been something of a musical prodigy ever since, at the age of ten, he conducted the People's Symphony of San Francisco through his own composition, A Legend of the Black Forest. For nine years he was violinist in front rank symphony orchestras conducted by Toscanini, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter and Walter Damrosch-but by contrast he has also played in hotel dance bands and in the pit of burlesque and movie houses. He studied for two years in Paris and Vienna-worked on the scores of several...
Died. Major Leonard Darwin, 93, eugenist, last surviving son of Charles Darwin's five; in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Onetime member of Parliament (1892-95), president of the Royal Geographical Society (1908-11), the Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year...
...FOREST AND THE FORT-Hervey Allen- Farrar & Rinehart...
Broad in scope, ambitious in conception, William Hervey Allen's second big work since Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26, 1933)* began last week its first public appearance. The Forest and the Fort is Volume I of a huge projected novel about American life between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...
...Disinherited can not yet be judged as to exact length. But it will be far longer than Anthony Adverse. Unlike Anthony, it will remain within the confines of the U.S. On its huge canvas, readers will see the gradual steps of the opening up of America. The primeval forest will give place to the forts of the first settlers, the forts will grow into villages, the villages into cities and towns...