Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing (or at least river-going) long before the Romans discovered them...
Masters Missing. Stars of Salzburg's great days like Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter had refused invitations to perform. Instead the opening-night audience listened to 6 ft. 2 in. Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that...
Ashfield, tucked in the Massachusetts hills, has only two churches, but even they are more than the town (pop. 900) can afford. Last October it found a way: one shepherd for its two flocks. Philip Humason Steinmetz, rock-hewn rector of tiny, white-framed St. John's Episcopal Church, took over as minister also of the Congregational Church that, with its Greek Revival portico and bell tower, dominates Ashfield's elm-bordered main street...
...completing two novels, his first in over 20 years. A titan rather than a genius, Dreiser in his amoral, sardonic first novel (Sister Carrie, 1900) ended a genteel U.S. literary tradition, cleared the way for a brutal naturalism. His greatest and best-known work, An American Tragedy, a rough-hewn milestone in U.S. letters, emphasized society's responsibility for the acts of its members...
...peers, squires, High and Low Church clergymen, farmers, shopkeepers, each with his wife and family, all passionately involved in the everyday affairs and intrigues of an English cathedral town. It is, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a great admirer of Trollope, "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its in habitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of." But readers who do not buy Doubleday's expensive edition of this famed novel...