Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...
...extent of guerrilla activities in occupied areas was indicated in a map published this week by the Intelligence Officers of the U. S. Fourth Marines stationed at Shanghai. It looked like the vision of a cartographer who had just been clubbed over the head. Big stars marking guerrilla-controlled areas, showed that actual Japanese control extends only a few miles each side of railroads, rivers, canals. Six stars dotted the map above Peking...
Judah's shopkeeping partners had none of his vision. Under the terms of the Central Pacific's Government grant, the company got loans of from $16,000 to $48,000 per mile, depending on the nature of the territory through which the road passed. While it was still being built through the Sacramento Valley, Judah was asked by his partners to testify that it was in the foothills, so that the company would receive $16,000 more for each mile of track. Unwilling to be a party to this miracle of moving mountains, Judah resigned, died soon after...
...ship was one he had bought for $900 at an auction six years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...
...announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: "There is a new religious era, and it is being led by women. Women have the new vision of the new interpretations of the teachings of Jesus Christ...