Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than half the receiving tent, like the whole of the other big tent, was designated as a "recovery ward." After men had been operated on, they stayed there pending evacuation by hospital ship or by airplane...
Afterward, three of us talked it over in our tent. We were too angry to be moderate...
...sight was something to belay an admiral. The King's rugs covered the steel deck. The King's gilded chairs gleamed against the grey turrets. On the forecastle deck, the King's tent stood in the somnolent heat. On the fantail, the King's sheep bleated in an improvised pen, making royal problems for the swabbers...
...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...
...Chicago's Art Institute. The show goes to show that U.S. landscape painting got off to a slow, painful start. Painter Guy was a determined, self-taught man, who began by tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before the romantic, nature-worshiping era set in. Then, slowly at first and with literary prodding from Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant, Emerson and James Fenimore...