Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of...
His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week unveiled "the largest map of the world " Oil paint upon 2,750 sq. ft. of canvas in the pavilion of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith reveals the breadth of missionary zeal.
In Vernon, Calif., the night before, George Godfrey, titanic Negro, had smacked one Tiny Herman to the canvas four times in three rounds-and then once more. After the fifth smack, Tiny Herman did not rise again until the referee's arm had marked off ten strophes. Had Negro...
The other canvas, called Bitter Fruit by an old friend of the subject, is the same Ann Cortlandt Smith as a great-grandmother. The ropes of pearls are luminous, the velvets urbane. The dame's expression is that of one who has found life out.
For a while he made about $1,000 a minute from such winks, nods. Then the company settled down to serious bidding. A representative of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought...