Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the city, Painters Manet and Degas went horse racing at Longchamp, while Seurat settled himself down to immortalize La Grande Jatte with shimmering pictures of ladies taking the afternoon sun under the island's trees. In the town of St. Cloud, whose park reveals the most magnificent panorama of Paris, Paris-born Alfred Sisley painted one of his best, The Bridge at St. Cloud. In the tranquil village of Giverny, Claude Monet contemplated the ice and snow on the winter stream, and in summer the riot of purple irises and rare water lilies in his garden...
...huge job in the war. Last week a conference of Government medical officials and top-rank psychiatrists at the New York Academy of Medicine considered what a grueling job it is also. Cases were presented from the War Shipping Administration's five rest homes for seamen (in Long Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Louisiana, California). Samples...
...first [alarm] I heard since I was torpedoed, and I practically froze in my bed. I didn't want to get out. I was musclebound, you might say, for several seconds." After that trip, he was sent to the Long Island rest home. After two weeks he was still afraid of crowds, and a short jaunt by train and ferry almost unnerved him. But after a good sleep, without nightmares-"I feel very good," he said. Soon he would be back...
...commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long Island he felt better, did not have his headaches so regularly. Said he: "As soon as I am healed, I propose to go back...
These four Sisters of St. Joseph got back to their mother house at Orange Calif. last week after a long journey, via Guadalcanal. In 1940 they began nursing and teaching on Buka Island in the Solomons. Last year Jap air raids often forced them to take to the jungle...