Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had something they could sell, if a portrait, for from $200 to $800, if a still life, for $25 up. Last week droves of old ladies pressed their noses close to the Grand Central Art Galleries' walls, noting the meticulous fineness of the painting, the absence of brush marks...
Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...Fuller Brush...
...guards trudged out to a timber patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared out of sight...
...freshman squash team was defeated 4 to 1 by Brush Hill School on Saturday afternoon, the Crimson thus losing first place in class C, division...