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Following Belgian Artist Franz Masereel, Lynd Ward's Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) was the first U. S. novel-in-woodcuts. A few titles to sections helped keep readers' fingers on the story's thread. Wild Pilgrimage, his third woodcut "novel," must be "read" without benefit of caption or title, but it tells so straightforward a story that no clues are needed. Artist Ward adopts one innovation: pictures printed in black show the events of the narrative; in red, what the hero is thinking...
...from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
...concerned, Dinny--intelligent, lonely and spirited; Wilfred, a poet, proud, sensitive, rebellious of convention; Jack Muskham... to whom good form is the only thing worth living for; is so clearly drawn, so true to life so well pictured in relation to the other two, that while following each separate thread we are never distracted from a view of the whole story. Each character stands out a complete person, yet so connected with the main idea that we realize more than ever how one's environment can be shaken off only superficially. We need, more than we suspect, to belong somewhere...
...early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious a week before any symptoms appear. As its illness (always fatal to the dog) comes on, it will first seem melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second...
...they shouted "Come back again!" Next day British headlines and dispatches gave the impression that Patrick had "mingled with crowds" in Belfast (not in a hand-picked village), talked of the "momentous consequences," made much of a surprise visit by H. R. H. next day to a linen thread works at Lisburn where he was "mobbed by laughing colleens...