Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sadly leading the prancing bay steed walked Sergeant Secrett, personal attendant to Earl Haig for many a year, now clad in mufti, his breast ablaze with medals won in action, his eyes streaming tears which he did not brush away...
Died. William Cordes, 55, onetime newsboy, president of the Prophylactic Brush Co. Inc.; of pneumonia; in Northampton, Mass...
...suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs: Racquet and Tennis), because he is a bigger and better man. Author Graham writes polite romance in mannered English and affected French. Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue...
...connoiseurs in this country are competent to declare on the authenticity of certain potteries which bear the signature of the great Kenzan, who dashed a playful brush over so many tea bowls and cake dishes and who lacquered and painted and carved in wood. It has proved distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some...
Southbound. Leaving Washington, President Coolidge smoked a long cigar. Then he took his after-lunch nap. Passing through Virginia, he discoursed on the Civil War. Entering North Carolina towards dusk, he looked out of the car window at farmers' brush fires. He dined early, on steak (medium), carrots, tea, Roquefort cheese. He smiled at Pullman-waiter T. C. Radcliffe, thanked him, retired to the club car to see Will Rogers in a cinema called A Texas Steer (comedy). Cuban travel scenes and "shots" of Havana were also shown...