Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...
...profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator and the incandescent lamp, and Elihu Thomson (1853-) his 500 and more industrial applications...
...completeness, of an author writing from inside out, from the depths of the living which he has done inside the mind of the character. In one of the other stories the cold leaves us shivering, but here there is no equal heat to leave us sweltering. The master's brush has slipped, but only so that it reveals the perfection of her tones in the rest of the canvas...
...flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
...Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed at until a day when the Empress Eugenie stood in front...