Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy had many a brush with the police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded...
...general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume I of Sarah Gertrude Millin's General Smuts is no campaign document blocked out with a whitewash brush but a sympathetic biography of a Big Boer...
...First brush between Captain January and the truant officer occurs when Star is haled to the village school to take an examination. Here, while Captain January and his friend Nazro (Slim Summerville) stand on a rain barrel and peer through the schoolhouse window, Star distinguishes herself. She makes the young nephew of the truant officer, being questioned simultaneously, appear doltish by comparison, gains credentials for the third grade. As lighthouse inspector, Captain Nazro has the sad duty of telling Captain January that, because his light is being mechanized, he must join the unemployed. This means that poor little Star...
...woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair. Doris Lee's brush is too kinetic to be good at still life. Her flowers look like artificial ones...
...Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer to think of Sir William's hobby, which has made him an authority on 18th Century British painting, the sale prices and present whereabouts of thousands of paintings being at his finger...