Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Inness Jr. died last week in Cragsmoor, N. Y. He was a competent minor painter with a talent for controversial subjects. Born in Paris in 1854, he studied in Rome and Paris, was given a gold medal by the Salon of 1900, sold a bucolic canvas called Shepherd and...
Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan. An automobile whisked them to the Battery, where they plumped into a Coast Guard Patrol cutter and vanished down murky New York Harbor chasing the fleet S. S. Aquitania...
On duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond...
Nine years ago, an anxious group of these same Bretons of St. Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving...
In Paris, an auctioneer's hammer was falling upon the properties of the late M. Paul Dutasta, secretary of the Versailles Peace Conference. They were bidding for a portrait of Mme. Rouill de Lestang, who was a handsome woman enough but more than ever desirable on a canvas signed...