Word: twigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ryder compared himself to an inchworm revolving at the end of a twig, but for all his groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...twig in a bush would get going...
...evidence. At Dublin he slipped ashore unrecognized, and two hours later was saying "I do" in a little Presbyterian church on Adelaide Road. A member of the U. S. Legation was his best man. He resumed his own name for the ceremony but the clergyman did not twig...
Early last week Su Lin, first captive giant panda ever brought to the U. S., added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her throat. Same day the twig was removed, but Su Lin fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda...
Most tenuous, but also the most interesting in showing how the early Steinbeck twig of romanticism was bent, is the second episode: Jody, who feels deeply the mystery of the distant California Sierras, thinks he has the answer when he watches an old Mexican going off into the mountains...