Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary Lochinvars who came out of the West to startle Chicago and Greenwich Village into a romantic revival. When he wrote Moon-Calf (1920), an autobiographical novel, thousands of adolescent readers found him excitingly like themselves. Sometime practicer of "free love," an editor of the old Masses, a pillar of the Provincetown Players, Floyd Dell used to seem the embodiment of intellectually flaming youth. Times have changed, but not Floyd Dell, 46. In this confidentially candid autobiography, Mooncalf Dell looks back on his generation's brief blooming, feels that it is good to be settled down. Admitting that...
...world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness, result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded...
Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise...
Last week the following were news: Percy Avery Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller, long considered a pillar of Manhattan's National City Bank (as his cousin John D. Jr. is of Chase National), was discovered to have resigned a month ago from the National City Board. Reason given: illness. Friends said he had not attended a directors' meeting for two years. But Wall Street was puzzled, not wholly convinced. Big backer of Charles E. Mitchell, Mr. Rockefeller was last week scheduled to be a witness at Mr. Mitchell's trial (see p. 46). His departure from National...
...Bordj Estienne, an elaborate mud fort near the oasis of Reggan, boasts (and not idly) an American bar, French table d"hÓte, illustrated French and English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial infantile idea...