Word: serpenting
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...white & blue covers it contains approximately 1,500 illustrations. Sometimes it seems as jumbled as a mail-order catalogue, and as absorbing. Here is the great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal...
...London Daily Express dropped a few sentimental tears last fortnight over the "muddy scar" that had been made on the grounds by bulldozers and steam shovels, "advancing like a serpent of destruction, leaving a hideous trail. ..." The Ministry of Works and Planning was not touched. Coldly, it said that in times like these, the main thing was to get the coal. They were getting it, at the rate of 25,000 tons a week...
...years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting. Last week her dramatic canvases were shown at Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries. Famine, painted ten years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories...
...that meets the last two weeks of August at Bread Loaf Inn near Middlebury, Vermont, to criticize and discuss each other's poems, short stories, articles, and novels. Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, and Bernard De Voto are on the staff. Morrison has himself published several volumes of verse, including "Serpent in the Cloud," 1931, and "Notes on Life and Death...
...David Hunter-Blair, onetime abbot of a monastery on the Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David was once chamberlain to Pope Pius...