Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working at his Joan of Arc with a new secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...
...window to Joan of Arc in the Ethical Church of London contains a three-quarter length portrait of George B. Shaw and the late Anatole France. Questioned as to why he was in the picture, the author of the play Saint Joan replied with characteristic pretentious affectation: "You had better go and ask Anatole France...
About noon, the N25 took the air again, bearing all six adventurers. A guard of honor of five planes flew with it up the bay to Oslo, circling away as the N25 described a triumphant arc and settled to the water offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons...
...flurry from Shade. Slattery was obviously taking his time to get the range. In the third round, Shade crouched lower. He came out of his corner almost on his belly. From this position he started a blow which began in the resin of the floor, described a long overhand arc, terminated on the jaw of James Slattery. Down he went, his faun smile gone, struggled up again, went down again, struggled up again, dropped again. Out of his corner flew a great white towel...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They arc selected primarily for the information they contain cither supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...