Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...
Examinations like this one under the direction of Alan Burroughs, research worker, are given masterpieces before they are placed on exhibit. Put under the X-ray, brush strokes stand out clearly revealing the characteristics of the painter. For instance, the brush strokes on "St. Luke and the Virgin" have led Mr. Burroughs to believe that Dirk Bouts, and not Roger van der Weyden, was its painter...
...development of this theme. It is this phase of the novel which makes it great and this the movie has neglected. Although it has thus lost the opportunity of making itself a great movie it does offer considerable amusement and will prove beneficial to those who are desiring to brush up on their conversational French...
...brief visits. He is wanted by the Federal Government for two murders, two mail robberies. Less than 24 hours after Federal agents announced that Floyd was wanted as one of the Union Station killers, he was flushed out of an Iowa farm by two peace officers. In his first brush with authority this year, he showed that he had lost none of his finesse. Jumping into a car with two companions, he led the police on a wild chase to an empty house at the dead end of a road. There he turned on them with a machine...
...York!" and this impression seemed to be general. Stepping into a big Daimler, George and Marina held hands on the short drive to St. James's Palace, waved their free hands at a surging populace which pelted flowers and roared "Welcome our Princess!" until excited Marina was seen to brush tears of joy from her eyes...