Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that no Jap is going to be killed by an artist's brush. . . ." So cracked Art Digest's Peyton Boswell at Congress' refusal to appropriate $125,000 for war orders: contracts with 19 artists to record the gory glory of World War II (TIME, July 19). But the country need not worry. U.S. artists will not be denied the best subjects in the history of man-made destruction...
...Confederate general killed at his first major brush with Northern troops at Mill Springs...
...doctor should not get too busy or patients will think they are getting a brush-off. Sometimes a crowded practice can be remedied by adding treatment rooms. One doctor who put in more treatment rooms at Boggs's suggestion began to think he had fewer patients than before. Actually he was handling 20% more patients...
...that moment the loud approaching sound of a motorcar was heard in the drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush...
Then, as he wrote in Amid These Storms (1932): ". . . The next step was to begin. But what a step to take! The palette gleamed with beads of color; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air. My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. But after all the sky on this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about...