Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys...
...conceal his horror at the fact that "members of the Communist International have penetrated all classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang have been "unable to act wisely and well with calm judgment but . . . are even now calling for prolonged resistance, regardless of the plight of 400 million people of China, whom they have plunged into the depths...
...that was not the whole story behind the Garden free-for-all. All last fall blood was bad between Jimmy Powers and most of the rest of the usually amiable press corps that covers most of the world's biggest sporting events. Some of this bad blood spilled over a fortnight ago when Editor Powers devoted his Daily News column to a biting parable about "Snow Mike and the Seven Dwarfs," plainly identifiable as Promoter Jacobs, two members of the State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly...
...better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West open, as it had not been to Audubon. and with such latter-day research as Dr. Elliott Coues's massive check list and American Museum of Natural History's 100,000 bird skins, Brasher achieved at least part of his ambition to outdo Audubon: he painted twice...
Meanwhile Oxford only picked up as points. The Britishers seemed to a displaying a less serious altitude on to whole. The flippancy of their cleanup man. The Right Bon. Earl of Asquith, and the general inability of their number three, identified as John Irwins, a former Princetonian, proved particularly costly...