Word: loon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story of Mankind (1921), Story of the Bible (1923), Van Loon's Geography (1932), Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of the great inestimables of the literary world. Critics who resent being spoon-fed from the vast Van Loon pudding are easily convinced by the Van Loon illustrations that his books belong in the nursery. Some children feel vaguely dissatisfied with Artist Van Loon's inky snarls and scratches. Between these critical...
...Arts* last week Hendrik Willem Van Loon presented his most ambitious and earnest chronicle. Fat as its author but not so weighty, cut down from an original 1,800 pages to less than 700, this book embodies "the story of painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists...
...they accept these homely observations, readers will soon find themselves becoming as comfortably at home with the ages as Author Van Loon himself. He cosily assures them that the temples of ancient Greece were "as simple as a garage, and a one-car garage at that, for every temple was the home of one single Deity." Up through the centuries the author of The Story of Mankind mounts again, telling in words of one syllable whence the Etruscans presumably inherited the arch, what the Romans did with it, why the churches of the Middle Ages were made so tall...
...Philip L. Tuchman, a substantial Manhattan capitalist taking a flyer. Mr. Tuchman stoutly maintains that Stag is not an imitation of Esquire, but the cover lettering of Stag is distinctly reminiscent and its first contents- divided between mildly scabrous cartoons and mannish text by folk like Hendrik Willem van Loon, Carleton Beals, Ernest Boyd, Jack Dempsey-were unmistakable. Stag is pocket-sized, costs...
...Vermonter named Apollos Smith operated a boat through the northern canal connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests drew their own drinks, at 4? apiece...