Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The pilot or observer sits encased in a web harness, firmly adjusted to his body by straps and buckles. Above is a small container of canvas duck in which the great silken fabric, of 24-ft. diameter when open, is cleverly packed. A "pilot chute" -an umbrella-like contrivance with...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was...
In Jerusalem lives Mr. Abel Pann. He paints pictures, he reads the Bible. His works are hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets...
Great writers have sometimes sought to paint the underworld. Not the most daring among them put upon canvas scenes more revolting or more despicable in the cold-blooded and sordid vices they display than several which the evidence in this case has depicted. The cynicism of most of the characters...
Mariners of Kiel, Germany, grizzled tars-who would have been nothing abashed to run upon the Lost Islands, to see the tall Dutchman, her cloudy sails full-set, go driving .by under a gibbous moon-cocked their eyebrows, scratched their polls. The cause of their wonderment was a ship that...