Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Cinema, TIME, Sept. 13, you state in a footnote that in Russian the adjective meaning "red" also means "pretty," hence the play on words in speaking of a "red girl" in the Communist sense. Whoever wrote that had better have a talk with Mr. Berlitz and brush up his Russian because krasnaya meaning "red" and krasivaya meaning "pretty" are similar in appearance but entirely different in meaning. I quote the feminine form of the adjective and the transliteration...
...maid with coffee for the press. Daniel Goodacre, 13, begged the used flash bulb from a photographer who snapped the arriving Justice, explaining: "This is the biggest thing that's ever happened out here, even counting the time a man shot himself in his garage and that big brush fire...
...estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment in character-building" and discharge her servants...
...probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China and the China coast. Admiral Yonai drinks, but sparingly, even at the Gargantuan drinking bouts for which Japan is famous. His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand. His fine Japanese hand had its work cut out fortnight ago when Emperor Hirohito called him in and handed him the problem of Shanghai...
...winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...