Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational ideals and standards as they are promulgated at these seats of learning, and there is a social element only at Chicago where, by the way, there is a large and flourishing Yale-Harvard-Princeton club, may Harvard men be found who think that perhaps Princeton was too brush in her football tactics. This attitude appears to have been the result of some evangel of hate who came to Chicago from the East when Harvard and Princeton finally broke relations, but, even so, there is the feeling among Chicago Harvard men that athletic relations should be resumed. Elsewhere throughout...
This was the chief comment vouchsafed by the leader of the English visitors at Harvard yesterday afternoon. He was very much gratified when he was informed that Harvard Square abounded in wielders of the brush and shine cloth...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...
...worked with brush and palette at Port-au-Prince, painting in the streets, his models picked from among passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered...
...paintings, numbering over 80, include portraits, landscapes and still life subjects. They are unusual on account of their technical excellence. Dr. Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief...