Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THE POWER AND THE GLORY-Sir Gilbert Parker-Harpers ($2.00). This broad canvas is open to the criticism, so frequently heard these days, that it was painted to hang in the cinema boxoffice. But what of that. The epic exploits of its tall and handsome hero are swept in with...
For two minutes and two seconds 215 pounds of Negro Harry Wills laced, slashed and uppercutted at 203 pounds of White Floyd Johnson, lowan fisticuffer. Then Johnson's seconds flirted a white towel-tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight...
U. S. One of George Bellows' portraits of his mother; a group of flashy and characteristic Sargents; "Spring in a New York Skyscraper," a large bright canvas by Childe Hassam.
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a...
They had Mattocks down from town again at once. Tristram's reason: to rebuke village prurience. Brenda's reason: Mattocks still needed her. Result: Mattocks improved and the prurience intensified. He began a canvas of great promise and a village gossip sent Wing an anonymous note, worded in newspaper clippings...