Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tedious solemnity so weighed upon ebullient State Senator Julian James of Jonesboro, Ark., who accompanied Miss Arkansas to the finals, that he sought escape by pacing up & down the Boardwalk. Wherever he saw a crowd gathered around a weight-guesser or a salt-water-taffy artist, Politician James would step up and give the crowd a lesson in pronouncing the name of his home state: AR-can-saw, not ar-KANZUSS...
Gags to Riches. When Hope went to Hollywood, he lugged with him $300,000 in annuities. Today he easily makes twice that much a year-at least three pictures at $125,000 each, around $7,500 a week from his broadcasts. He has no artist's denseness in handling cash. When a business agent asked a bank official to try to swing him the management of Hope's affairs, the official remarked: "Bob Hope should be handling yours...
...Goya, he yet thoroughly impaled many of the affectations and stupidities of his period. Prolific "Rowly" was born in London in 1756 of a prosperous merchant father and a French mother. His conventional schooling was followed by a year at the Royal Academy, two years of happy, standard artist's life in Paris (bills footed by a rich French aunt...
Jerome Connor's friends, however, stoutly defended him. He was transparently, said they, an artist and a man of parts. They recalled that as a child he had gone from County Kerry to the U.S., where he had worked manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore...
...wished to be dubbed into. Harpo Marx was painted as Gainsborough's Blue Boy, Charlie McCarthy as Hals's Laughing Cavalier, W. C. Fields as Queen Victoria. Prices for these efforts sometimes ran up to $1,000. Says Decker (who suffers from ulcers and diabetes): "An artist doesn't earn a living until after he's dead. People buy his stuff and then hope he'll die pretty soon so the pictures will be worth more...