Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched remained obscure. Regent Horthy and Count Bethlen both appear to be badly tarred with the counterfeiters' brush; but the Regent is a Fascist and the Count...
...them rode an old broken down mare. All of them had flagrantly violated the first canon of fox-hunting good form by equipping themselves with rifles! To a true British aristocrat any other method of killing a fox than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that whoever the pedestrian fox hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt...
Then his enemies conceived the brilliant idea of denouncing him for his intimacy with some of the scoundrels who launched the French Panama Canal swindle. The tar of that brush of infamy stuck sufficiently to cost him the votes which he needed to stay in the Chamber...
Henry Reuterdahl, whose paint brush earned him the rank of Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N., died last week in Washington. Most of his paintings are unsalable because they are plastered to public buildings or warships, but even were they salable there would be no fluttering of art dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played...
Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate...