Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board of Trustees, who directed Curator Burroughs to buy them. Fame had come to the living, in one case too late. Artist Glenn O. Coleman whose Speakeasy, painted with bright, shallow verve, was bought, died last month. The other young men: Kansan John Steuart Curry, cheerfully indigent, who looks like a citified farmer, has been traveling with Ringling Brothers Circus. Arnold Blanch, whose wife Lucille is as good a painter as he, lives seriously in the Woodstock, N. Y. artist colony...
Designed for the heavyweight championship fisticuffs between Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey on June 21, the new stadium is a shallow bowl built by piling up, on the outside of a 12-acre lot, dirt excavated from the middle. It holds 75,000 people. The 25,000 who were in it last week discovered that while the bowl might be suitable for boxing, the sides were not quite steep enough to provide good views of wrestlers, particularly wrestlers like Shikat and Lewis, who spent most of their time lying down in a flat impenetrable tangle on the ring floor. Shikat...
...fishing. Author Bergman tells how to make slack line casts, how to study a stream: "Sometimes the water may look flat and uninteresting but close examination will reveal many small holes scattered here and there usually in each of these holes will be found trout. . . . No matter how shallow the water may be, it is always wise to fish where there are rocks of any size. . . Always the short cast is preferable to a long...
There are times for the Vagabond, as for every man, when the apple turns to ashes on his palate, when the burden and the mystery prey on his spirit. He turns from the shallow comfort of the penny-a-liners to the mordant voice of Housman. Like Archduke's cousin, he sees the symbol of it all in a handfull of dust. Like Swift, he celebrates his birthday as a time of mourning, and all neighbors join in. Life is a poor thing, bitter and mocking and the phrase of Solon runs in his mind...
Careful examination indicated that the baby had been clubbed to death shortly after being snatched from his crib on the night of March 1. The badly decomposed remains, clad only in a flannel stomach band and an undershirt, lay face down in a shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...