Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing him honor, his own Government continued to ignore his Arctic ordeal. Far more interesting to him last week than the memories of 1884 were the New Deal and the exploits of Adolf Hitler. Receiving interviewers at his home in Georgetown, D. C., the old soldier fingered his white brush, remarked: "When you get to be 90, medals don't seem as important as they do when you are younger...
Just before Charles Francis Brush, Cleveland inventor of arc lights and storage batteries, died in 1929, he gave $500,000 for a Brush Foundation to improve the human race and regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind...
...Brush clothes and hats.--Go to post office...
...altogether perfect, George Brush had once, beset by a girl in a barn, sinned. Thereafter he regarded himself as married, sought her everywhere. When he found her again she was a waitress in Kansas City and not glad to see him, but he wore down her resistance, married her. His great ambition was to have a fine American home. But experience, domestic and otherwise, gradually undermined George Brush's faith that he could get better and better until he was perfect. He lost his faith, his health, nearly died. But he was a strong young man. He recovered...
...writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told with unaffectedly high spirits...