Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists were invited to exhibit, and were tempted with $4,000 in cash prizes-$800 more than Carnegie offers. The jury, imported from New York, included Juliana Force, doughty duenna of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, and two divergent painters of Manhattan life: Reginald Marsh, who paints it like a carnival barker, and Raphael Soyer, who paints it like a soft-hearted social worker. As happens with artist-dominated juries, the prizes at Chicago's Art Institute went to technically excellent paintings. Artists, who know about means, apparently care less about each others' ends...
...WILDERNESS - Linnie Marsh Wolfe-Knopf...
...Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, editor of his journals (John of the Mountains), has stitched together a wealth of fact to make a readable, if somewhat shallow, biography of the naturalist...
...three universities' presidents, Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, Daniel L. Marsh of B.U., and President Conant, will gave the introductory speeches leading up to the main address by Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army. Brigadier General William J. Keville, Adjutant General of Massachusetts, will present the traditional greetings from the Governor...
...Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony...