Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news, not for the purpose of enabling your readers to wear the latest...
...explorations will be conducted along the Niger River which flows through varied areas of brush and mountainous country...
...fire and a great jug of spicy soup standing on the floor. When she returned to the kitchen, she first went to "turn" the fish; then she looked at her soup tureen. She stared at her soup tureen; over the edge of it was hanging a grey, silky brush. When Mrs. Stein pulled this brush, she found that it was attached to an animal. From her soup she extracted the pet weasel of her son. Later the son reported that the weasel had been seen spinning in dizzy, hungry fashion about the jug of spicy, beautiful soup...
...Student Vagabond, who was wont to wander in, and at times lend color to, the pages of the CRIMSON last year has ceased his travels and so to speak, settled down to a peaceful old age and taken up house keeping where he will no longer be constrained to brush away the dust from the diamond--an occupation which at times brought him close to the verge of mental pneumonia. In fact, the Vagabond has become quite domestic, and as a result, his son will this year wander about upon the father's business...
Other art journals inquired. In response other masterpieces dripped from the brush of Jerdanowitsch. One showed a jet-black Negress at a washtub, with socks hanging on a clothes line overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...