Word: huntsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortune's Maggot" rises like a slender and fragile tower out of the morass of modern fiction. Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often...
Nonchalant, His Royal Highness took a six-room suite at the Waldorf, paid for it a week in advance, then left for a week-end visit at Pawling, N. Y., with a fellow explorer-huntsman, Lowell Thomas, partial biographer of Britain's mysterious hero of the Palestine campaigns, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (TIME, July...
...Tadcaster, Yorkshire, one John Short, venerable huntsman, dipped his fingers in the blood of a fresh killed fox and smeared therewith the eager face of a Royal and Imperial lad of four...
...sportsmen to apprehend specimens of the giant lizard reported by P. A. Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from...
...after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon. It is the kind of book that travels from hand to hand more...