Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold through dealers or art galleries. The Rogers Group man was the Fuller Brush man's grandfather...
...draughtsmen in the main draw from models, not from life, whereas Mr. Arno, with television penetration visualizes his types while they are unconscious of his existence and presents them with a cinematic spontaneity and forceful pen and brush that in their presence we believe in their actuality...
...Whenever I tired and laid aside my brush I'd drop in on him. There he was, painting away. . . . He was one of the youngest men I have ever known...
...youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard as the best all-round collection in the world.* Mammals, reptiles, insects have come too. From Tring issues sporadically the learned Novitates...
...President Lowell's retirement. Time is an inexorable Juggernaut in the path of which none can stand; yet to some it seemed far too soon. There is so much that is well begun remaining yet to be finished, and the hand that sketched the outline can best wield the brush for the finishing strokes. These are the practical and trite considerations with which the Vagabond rationalizes his wish that the great man might have remained at the helm just a little longer...