Word: katrina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer day in 1899, a private banker named Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina were walking through the expensive wildwood of their big country estate, Yaddo, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Suddenly Katrina stopped, listened, raised her hands "as if in appeal to that Something which was too vast for me to define." Few moments later she said with dreamy excitement: "Here will be a perpetual series of house parties-of literary men, literary women, and other artists. . . . At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame. Look, Spencer! They are walking...
Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...
...Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate is a three-story Gothic mansion, whose vast rooms are carpeted with costly Persian rugs, lined with books and paintings, filled with bric-a-brac including everything from throne chairs to Swedish sleighs...
...High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
...scribbling nights on scratch-pads for two years. Sally Salminen, 30-year-old Finnish maid (employed by a Parkavian family), completed Katrina, a Swedish novel to which Helsingfors publishers awarded a prize of $2,100. "Ever since I can remember I wanted to write," she confessed when cameramen and newshawks arrived in her kitchen. "I was always sort of a crybaby, feeling sad because I didn't have an education...