Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wallpaper store in Pittsburgh's East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman was posing. High-minded Lawrence Saint abashed his tormentors...
...cadets of the U. S. Military Academy looked up from their meal, beheld for the first time the final and complete version of Decisive Battles of the World. A 70-ft. mural by T. (for Tom) Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles...
...traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...
Christened on the spot by Whitelaw Reid, the Linotype thus had its first commercial demonstration. Within a year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...
...earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless...