Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STYLE AN ANTI-HOLLYWOOD BIAS. WE FILM-MAKERS REALIZE OUR COMMUNITY IS A GORGEOUS SUBJECT FOR SATIRE. WE GRANT, OR ANYWAY MOST OF US DO, THAT WE ARE THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE. YOU CAN WRITE MORE JOKES ABOUT US THAN YOU CAN ABOUT PLUMBERS, UNDERTAKERS OR FULLER BRUSH SALESMEN. HOLLYWOOD IS GUILTY OF DELIBERATE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE LIVING WORLD. IT SEEKS TO ENTERTAIN, AND WE SUSPECT THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE WITHDRAWAL IS WHAT MAKES HOLLYWOOD FUNNY. BUT LET TIME MAGAZINE VIEW WITH ALARM OR POINT WITH PRIDE, BUT NOT LAUGH OFF HOLLYWOOD'S GROWING RECOGNITION...
There were Japs in that tangle. One infantryman suddenly stood up and calmly fired his Tommy gun downward into the brush. Two others stood by with bayoneted rifles poised. A grenade went off in a puff of smoke. Other soldiers around seemed inattentive, looking off across an area of broken palms where heavy firing was going...
...waiting Britons, Canadians, New Zealanders and Indians of the Eighth had a new commander: giant (6 ft. 5 in.), young (49), brush-mustached, hard-driving Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese, whom General Sir Bernard Montgomery was said to have chosen personally as his successor...
...range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet's brush sketch for his great painting Olympia...
Tony Biddle paused to brush a few long, white dog hairs off his blue business suit. He was, as always, faultlessly dressed: white shirt with horizontal black stripes, grey tie, red pocket handkerchief...