Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadow of Thayer, riding on the wings of the wind, a novel element broke into the sombre afternoon. Two fleet cyclists bore down the pathway, while far behind, somewhat encumbered by his ulster and muffler, panted a burly Yard cop. The hounds, it seemed, were in full cry, but the quarry was a wheel, and away. The Vagabond has been a cycler of sorts from early youth, and if he has never raced Harvard's finest about the pathways of the Yard, at least he recognizes the novelty of such a chase...
...Washington and 20 mi. down the lazy Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg lies quiet old Port Royal, whose 500 inhabitants go about their unimportant affairs in a setting of faded 18th Century elegance. Port Royal has 60 old buildings, most of them built soon after the Revolutionary War. In their shadow there is genteel marketing, churchgoing, scampering of children. Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company...
...SHADOW FLIES-Rose Macaulay-Harper...
From her reputation as a satirical novelist (Potterism, Orphan Island, Staying With Relations) Rose Macaulay has fled all the way into the 17th Century, to a copiously documented historical romance of Cavalier England. Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor...
...Shadow Flies is full of talk, much of it good, all of it Caroline, some of it (notably the Devonshire dialect) colorfully incomprehensible...