Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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All modern painting had its inception in Italy in that period usually referred to by Anglican historians as the Renaissance but more aptly designated (from the painter's point of view) by the Italians as quartocento and quintocento. More aptly, because painting of the 14th and 15th Centuries did...
Last week an interior decorator went to the Fifth Avenue triplex apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired Danish-American zinc man. He was commissioned to remove some 16th Century Flemish tapestries which Mr. Lihme was lending for exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even...
Then Giuseppe Mario Bellanca began to put sticks and canvas together. His first plane, a compromise in design between his own ideas and those of his friends who furnished the money, crashed at the start of its maiden voyage. He was convinced that the early pusher type of plane with...
A couple of Bostonians were thwacking each other at the Yankee Stadium in New York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay...
Chesapeake Bay lay flat and balmy, but corners of the sky looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling...