Word: willowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects of mass...
...book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer's night...
Townsend, on the other hand, was unable to shut off Harvard hits when hits meant runs. Captain Jenkins emerged from his batting slump with a bang, making three clean hits and scoring the winning run in the tenth. Todd also did yeoman work with the willow, driving out two singles and a slashing two bagger. Gordon, after four failures to hit, lined a single to center in the tenth that broke up the game...
...further voted to appoint a committee under the chairmanship of Earl Marlatt, of 9 Willow Street, Boston, in order that full information on the situation and the work of the Student Friendship Fund should be disseminated, that speakers and publicity material should be made available in the most economical way, and that the full support of New England schools and colleges should be assured...
...Story. Kai Lung, wandering philosopher and teller of tales in the days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when...