Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush?") The question did not trouble him long...
...well as others', is perfectly natural and proper in a portrait painter. His own exuberant, self-assertive nature looms large in his work; and some of his portraits are raised above the potboiler class only by the force of his style. John's dashing brush flourishes are as distinctive as another man's handwriting. Wyndham Lewis once described him as a man of action "into whose hand the fairies stuck a brush instead of a sword...
...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
Welcomed to London: Lana Turner & Groom Bob Topping. The welcoming just barely came off. Newsmen summoned for an interview were kept waiting an hour, then given a gentle but swift brush-off. "Probably the . . . most humiliating press conference ever held in Britain," the British Press Association called it. So the honeymooners tried again, with Scotch & soda and smiles. One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up." She denied using those words, but added: "They do sound rather American...
When Taylor arrived, a burly patrolman blocked the main door, over which some one had placed a sign, "Negroes." "This is the colored entrance," he said, "the white entrance is around the side." Taylor ignored him, tried to brush past. Four detectives closed in. They hustled Taylor to a patrol car and shoved him in. At the police station, Senator Taylor was booked for "disorderly conduct" (for violating Alabama's segregation laws) and searched. When he protested, a cop growled: "Keep your mouth shut, buddy." Released on bond, he was ordered to stand trial this week. Said Senator Taylor...