Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full tilt across the campuses of America, mounted on such noble horses as UNAMERICAN and SUBVERSIVE and UNPATRIOTIC, and hunting down foxy Communism and Fascism. The air is already filled, so to speak, with their cries of "yoicks," and occasionally there is a 'view halloo" as they sight the brush in the form of some anti-war demonstration or students' political organization...
Housepainting is a good way to learn the feel of a brush, the mixture of colors. It also gives one plenty of time to think...
...profit from war, as do many other persons, they are no more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas dust storms, although the latter of the two concerns is responsible for The Fuller Brush Man, who is about as all pervading as the dust itself...
...Yard decided that to control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove almost beneath Queen Victoria's marble nose and cooking the family breakfast...
...Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...