Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad strokes of the brush would paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...Liberty Memorial, a 217-ft. shaft topped by flame-colored light, they drove through a district of small homes and gardens to Country Club Plaza, the neo-Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course. As he opened the front door, Roberts...
Personal Traits. Of average size (5 ft. 8 in.; 165 Ibs.). His most pronounced facial characteristics are his famed brush mustache and his round, brown eyes. His most characteristic gesture when making a speech: emphasizing a point by rising on his toes, leaning forward, pointing his index finger and popping his eyes. He favors dark, conservative suits, hates to be photographed in his shirtsleeves (he thinks it undignified) or with his mouth open (his front teeth are slightly parted). He speaks in deep, deliberate tones, uses an occasional gentlemanly damn...
...clearest colors they could find, combining them in arbitrary and surprising harmonies. They elided, exaggerated, twisted, destroyed, repeated and transposed the contours of real objects in order to draw lines with an integrated life and rhythm of their own-staccato in Byzantine mosaics and stained glass, sinuous in Chinese brush drawings, Japanese prints, Persian miniatures and Turkish rugs...
...first installment, Shorty: 1) got the brush-off from the managing editor when he asked for a reporter's job; 2) was suspended from the circulation force for slugging a taxidriver; 3) laid the foundations for romance; 4) fumbled a chance for a beat on a gangster slaying; 5) saw his pal locked up as a material witness. It all sounded plotty enough to befuddle the cast (including Mickey's father, Joe Yule, who plays a kindly oldtimer...