Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Museum of Art, Art Critic Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,* famed sculptor, agreed that "The Bird" was a worthy example of fine art. Most emphatic was Sculptor Epstein, who brought with him to court a 5,000 year old piece of stone, reputed to be an Egyptian representation of a hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat...
...people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in Buffalo, N. Y.?all leaned forward eagerly...
...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...married Una Call Kuster in 1913. They have twin boys. Lean, athletic, needing solitude, he built a house of sea-boulders on a headland near Carmel, Calif. Falcons nested in his tower of "hawk-perch" stones. Some years ago he offered Tamar and Other Poems to Manhattan publishers but only an obscure Irish printer, Peter G. Boyle, would risk handling such inflammable material as a tragedy of incest (TIME, March 30, 1925). Reviews soon brought him to a notice for which he has small regard but which must become, despite the book world's busy piddlings, nationwide and perpetual...
...Shortly after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, of which Student Bellanca had no knowledge...