Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said United Artist Schenck...
...sensible, for her station was low, poverty-ridden: she lived with her ne'er-do-well father, her shiftless sister, on a derelict barge in the Thames, in the heart of London; worked all day as a housemaid. It was too bad she was pretty, for otherwise rich young Artist Bryan might never have noticed...
...teach you better.) Fred was honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when handsome, aristocratic Artist Bryan gave her an absent-minded kiss, got her to pose for him in the nude, Jane lost her heart...
...served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose, he looks like what he is: an intelligent humorist. Other books: The House-by-the-River, Plain...
Woodcutter Lynd Ward's first "novel" in woodcuts, Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), was first of its kind in the U. S.,? became a minor collectors' item. Mad Man's Drum's story is simple in outline, but Artist-Author Ward this time makes some of his sequences unnecessarily obscure. As before, he is decorative, eerily suggestive, reminiscent of morbid cinema...