Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They came to country so like what they had passed through that they felt they were journeying through echoes. Sometimes they saw herds of buffalo so vast that the prairie trembled with the incessant roaring of the bulls. The men made nets of brush and in a few minutes scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook...
...about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years ago, Van Meegeren had made $2,800,000 with his crooked brush...
Then the committee summoned Major General Bennett Meyers, wartime deputy chief of procurement, who retired in 1945. A burly, balding man with a bristle-brush mustache, Meyers had had his troubles. After a trip to North Africa (where Elliott Roosevelt's photo-reconnaissance squadron was stationed), Assistant Secretary of War for Air Lovett called him up and demanded: "For God's sake, Benny, don't we have a photo-reconnaissance plane?" Then Harry Hopkins called him to the White House, said that it was an outrage, and why didn't he get busy...
...Howard Fuller, 34, plump president of the joke-haunted Fuller Brush Co., was also coming right along. To impersonate him in a Red Skelton comedy, The Fuller Brush Man, Columbia Pictures asked for-and got-A. Howard Fuller...
Rejects. In Pittsburgh, Ronald L. Hale escaped an auto smash-up with slight injuries, one embarrassment: he was knocked right out of his pants. In Jerome, Idaho, David Detweiler, in an accidental brush with a potato-digging machine, suffered no injury at all but was picked clean of everything but his shoes & socks...