Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris Painter Georges Mathieu appears to be crazy like a fox-one with a particularly long and wavy brush. A slim, trim dandy of 34, he has made a good living as a pressagent. And by adroitly publicizing himself, Mathieu has recently become the reigning darling of advance-guard art, has no trouble selling (at prices ranging from $600 to $3,400) pictures that take only from a few minutes to a few hours to paint. Last week a new exhibition of Mathieu's paintings was on view at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, and proved...
...baby's whatever-it-is, Wooster has now grown a mustache. Dashing, don't you know, debonaire-at least in the eyes of the young master himself. But Jeeves, a devotee of the lifted-eyebrow school of acting, lifts his eyebrows like nobody's business. No brush for Bertie about sums up the situation...
Still, while it lasts, the brush starts a fire in a frightfully brainy novel-writing number named Florence Craye and a slow burn in her brawny fiancé, G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright. The subplots, all highly glutinous (sticky, to lesser men), involve 1) a pawned pearl necklace, 2) the sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier...
...spite of wet brush (which hampers the dogs' work), a cold wind (which causes quail to take cover) and the gathering dusk, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury bagged two birds each. But for most of the time the President was in Georgia, the weather was so unpleasant that he stayed inside and resorted to bridge. This week Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower were back in the White House to observe, as they always do, their engagement anniversary. On St. Valentine's Day, 39 years ago, Lieut. Eisenhower gave a duplicate of his West Point class ring...
...Gothic King," unaware that they were actually looking at Malskat's portrait of Rasputin. "I learned a lot of things about my art," Malskat told the court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks of Gothic genius." When the forgery was revealed, the student indignantly pointed out that they were still remarkably like the Gothic murals in the Lübeck Holy Ghost Hospital. Explained Malskat: "I also painted those...