Word: scows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted sluggishly through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted undisturbed through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...
...cries his warning: Man is a part of nature; destroy nature and you destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers home with their intellectual pockets full of odd and fascinating information about almost everything from the housecat...
...mansion is run by a bland sharper who calls himself Dr. Chesterfield. An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs. Boating and riding are advertised in the school brochure. But the boat is a suicidally leaky scow, and riding is discontinued when the resident donkey drops dead and is carved to vary the diet of congealed herring and paste porridge...
...Dove left his wife and son, went to live on a scow on Manhattan's Harlem River. Finally he managed to scrape together enough money to buy an old 42-ft. yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery...