Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warfare and poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world." An hour and 15 minutes later in Geneva. U. S. Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President...
...duty of numbers 7 and 6. . ."Woof" Hallowell, brother of last year's Varsity captain, and a member of this same stern five in his Freshman boat, holds down number 4 seat in place of Armstrong. . .Erickson, number 3, is the man who claims he likes the four-mile "brush" (as Coach Bert Haines would call it) because you have time to settle down and row! . .A Californian, Ed Yeomans, keeps up the Californian rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe...
Critics found in Mrs. McCormick's portraits?with one exception all painted in the impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive...
...Headed Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is adapted from Katherine Brush's best seller. The picture is a quick, caustic biography of an alert, successful strumpet. From her stenographer's desk in the Legendre Coal Company, Lil (Jean Harlow) quickly finds her way into the lap of Bill Legendre (Chester Morris), from there to the Legendre living room where Mrs. Legendre discovers her. Presently, there occurs a scene in a roadhouse telephone-booth which contains both Bill & Lil. Lil says: "You can't get along without me," and proves she is right by marrying Bill when his first...
...four. Saturday Coach Brown took the reins when Coach Whiteside went to Ithaca to look over his crew's next opponents, and yesterday work set in again in earnest. This week the Varsity crew's power will be undoubtedly challenged at least once with a time trial and a brush with the Jayvee eight...