Word: gourd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...
...typified by insistent rivet-noises; and a new Rumba which George Gershwin completed last month. He got the idea last February in a low street in Havana called La Frita. The Rumba is a "symphonic overture" based on Cuban themes, for full orchestra plus bongo (tom-tom), maracas (rattle), gourd and sticks. At its first hearing it seemed lengthy, sometimes dull; but were it tightened up it might well compete with Ravel's Bolero, a work more shrewdly conceived but of considerably less musical interest...
...reference to "Compass Boy," TIME, April 20, Science; it may interest Dr. DeSilva to know that the natives of Madagascar (where I recently spent several years), having no word for ''right" and "left" must say, "hand me that gourd to the northwest of you-pass me that pot to the southeast of you." Thus through many generations they have developed an uncanny sense of direction. After hours of night marching over ridges, down ravines, through swamps, I have seen my porters arrive at a strange village, in a strange neighborhood, squat down to cook their rice and manioc...
...America's Cup-rococo, gourd-necked silver trophy 2 ft. 3 in. high, offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a sailing race in England in 1851, won by the yacht America, and ever since the property of U. S. yachtsmen...