Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoffman, controlling his temper, replied, "That is an absolute falsehood." He did not know the man "from Adam's off ox ... I did not offer...
Nine years ago, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, an overworked schoolteacher in upstate New York, bowled over the nation's critics with his first novel, a precision-built tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...
...Track of the Cat, Clark again busies himself with the question of evil, but he has switched from the cool clarity of Ox-Bow to a naive, sometimes murky symbolism that gets in the way of his essentially simple yarn. Again the scene...
...race tracks and the ball parks. Zoos, parks, botanical gardens, got their full share of the army of spring-struck automobile owners. By night youth took to the highway; couples parked in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, in the foothills above Albuquerque, and along a thousand Old Ox Roads...
...Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...