Word: thickets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will...
...painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
...Soon it slid back into the murk, horizontally. It, the shadow, was the ghost of the reputation as a heavyweight fighter of Harry Wills, onetime Negro stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against...
Three months ago, five bullets whizzed from a thicket in a vacant lot in Canton, Ohio. One of them entered the vigorous brain of Editor Don R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News, as he was putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing...
...game of boys playing Indians in a thicket. There is a real War going on across the Channel, but that is a soldiers' affair. In the warrens of Whitehall there is the war of the ministries and the boys who have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford...