Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians the world over are designing their programs this season to commemorate the centennial of Beethoven's death.* Singers deep-voiced and shrill-voiced are dedicating their classical opening group to his songs, to arias from his Fidelio. Violinists and pianists are featuring his concertos and sonatas; painstakingly, reverently...
PROPAGANDA is defined by Professor Cornford in his "Microcosmographica Academica" as the art of completely deceiving one's friends without ever wholly deceiving one's enemies. And books which at this date canvas again and again the responsibility for the War, particularly the question of inter-allieddebts, may in most...
Two hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly $30,000...
Up from Iowa had come a canvas, property of the Des Moines Association of Fine Arts, executed by Artist Eugene Edward Speicher. It showed, baldly speaking, a lady with no clothes on and was simply called, like many another masterpiece, "Nude." The judges found it worthy of $1,000 donated...
The Eay and straw with which the grounds have been covered in the past, have proven decidedly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as even a moderate wind would below the covering off the field. Although each of the four sections of the canvas weighs 1,600 pounds, benmen can spread and furl them...