Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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UNDER ONE ROOF-Ruth Eleanor McKee-Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman...
...nine-by-twelve-foot canvas of five loosely sketched, bright pink nudes swinging in a wild dance across emerald green grass under a vivid blue sky hung last week on the walls of Manhattan Art Dealer Pierre Matisse, flanked by a group of photographs and autograph letters. Bewildering to the cautious mind, the canvas was of first importance to the U. S. art world for it was a full-size preliminary sketch for La Danse, the most famed mural decoration that Dealer Matisse's father, bearded Henri Matisse, ever did. Few U. S. art lovers have ever seen...
Sounding curiously like a Republican critic of WPA, Mr. Burnet continued: "I have begged on several occasions for a little relief labor for small works to im prove the conditions for Bears. . . . But gangs of men chipping up grass and weeds along roads all over the district is apparently far more important...
...WINGS, FUR & SHOT (A Grass-roots Guide to American Hunting)-Robert B. Vale-Stackpole ($4). Some people may cry out against this book because its purpose, aside from underscoring some truisms of game conversation, is to tell inexperienced hunters how, when and where to quarry. It runs the North American gamut from squirrels and doves up through bear and turkeys. It is written in short, efficient chapters, with a minimum of glowing reminiscence, a maximum of good hunting sense. Bob Vale has shot wild guinea fowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and told a bear to go scat...
...except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch Holt, who makes a good living smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured by a poetic Northern hunter who ties up his boat at Grass Margin for the night. When she becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding by her dying father and casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across the river to his own camp. The grandfather, a backwoods...