Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christopher Wood belonged to a period in the arts which has been thoroughly berated for its frivolity but for which many an artist nevertheless feels a nostalgic respect. In the U. S. it was characterized by the brave inebrieties of Greenwich Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist...
Bullitt introduced Russell Wood, vice-chairman of the Cambridge School Committee, Kenneth Taylor, a representative of the A. F. of L in Massachusetts, and Valery Burati of the textile workers organizing committee. These speakers that the H. S. U. had gathered for the occasion presented their reasons for the passing of the bill...
Aiding Harlow with the Varsity were Lyall Clark, Johnny Wood, Wes Fesler, and the newly appointed Vernon Struck. Freshman coach, Nell Stahley and Jayvee mentor, Henry Lamar were on hand...
...coaches will assist Harlow in the spring drills, including Wes Fesler, end coach, Lyal Clark, line coach, John Wood, backfield coach, Vernon Struck, assistant backfield coach, Henry Lamar, Junior Varsity coach, and Skip Stahley, Freshman coach. For the first time in a long while an undergraduate, Struck, will be acting in an official coaching capacity before graduation...
...that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead...