Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
...Rover believes that last week was an ideal week for the person with newsy spirit," continued Ingham, who is the brother of Katharine Brush, the authoress. "On Monday he went to the "Green Pastures' School for the young Negroes who are potential pasturers. The Rover gained entrance on the pretense that he was from the board of education. Many are the roles played by the Rover as he scoots over his course for news. Tuesday, he wrote of his friend Hannibal. Wednesday, a lady who was sent home from London in the war days by Herbert Hoover to stop...
...gentleman riders, last week was disastrous. At Media, Pa., at the fall meeting of the Rose Tree Hunt Club, Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond's Fairbanks II, ridden by Carroll K. Bassett, fell at a brush jump and broke his neck. Three days later at the same jump, the same thing happened to Kendal Boy, owned by Fairfield Osborn Jr., ridden by Stanley Flagg...
Katharine ("Kay") Brush, 30, is clearly classifiable as a sophisticate. At 17 she was a newspaper reporter, theatrical reviewer, cinema colyumist. She has married, divorced, remarried. Her novels Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman and her famed short story Night Club won her a reputation for knowing-her-way-about. With pardonable pride College Humor boasted recently that Author Brush, who ''rushes about the world with her eyes open." would write for it a monthly colyum, Manhattan Cocktail...
Last week in College Humor's November issue Colyumist Brush poured her first cocktail. It contained a description of Mrs. Ely Culbertson's eyebrows-"so thin they give her face a kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit her. They're magnificent on her" of the Summer Casino at Monte Carlo with its floating revue-stage anchored offshore. But smart Katharine Brush let a few drops of amazingly stale beer get into her cocktail. She wrote...