Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banker Wertheim bought for his Civic Aid Foundation Oswald Garrison Villard's famed old pinko weekly, The Nation, which was editorially strong at 70 but financially feeble. Mr. Wertheim kept hands off The Nation's policy, which was shaped by Editor Freda Kirchwey and her colleagues, Joseph Wood Krutch and Max Lerner. Under the Foundation's patronage, The Nation treated itself to a new format, the cartoons of brilliant David Low. With pinko-liberalism rampant in the land, circulation began to soar...
...made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes he believes is a rediscovery of a lost purple used by the Egyptians. He made paints from clay, peanuts and cattle dung. With these he painted pictures, some of which hang in art galleries. From wood shavings he made a synthetic marble...
...beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...
FRESHMAN: Henry A. Curwen, stroke; Robinson Stevens, No. 7; Walter N. Kernan, No. 6; Phillips Hallowell, No. 5; John R. Richards, No. 4; John J. Rowe, Jr., No. 3; Harry W. Wood, No. 2; H. Gaylord Dillingham, bow; Geroge H. Shortlidge...
...Prince; Philip L. Reed, Jr.; Matthew D. R. Riddell; Edward P. Roberts; Gerald P. Roeser; James A. Rousmaniere; Edward Rubin; David P. Sheppard; Philip C. Starr; Kenneth W. Sterling; Clifton D. Stevens; John H. Waite, Jr.; Lester H. Watson; Herbert F. Welsh; Roger L. Werner; and Hamilton H. Wood...