Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze...
To conceal his identity, the Hero draped canvas over the word "Mouette" on the cruiser's stern. The Coast Guard announced its right to shoot at anybody who did such a thing. The Mouette reached York Harbor, Me., and one Frank ("Red") Dolan, New York Daily News reporter who had...
Edward of Wales provided Cora, who always sleeps in his room, with a portable kennel last week. Cora, a Cairn terrier, deserves more luxurious quarters, it was felt, because six weeks ago she became the mother of five. Her new kennel is an ingenious affair of canvas with collapsible struts...
Subtler but just as resonant as the ballyhooing of the late Phineas Taylor Barnum was the publicity which preceded, last week, the public auction of two Renaissance paintings from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton of Manhattan. The two pictures were hung in a shadowy chamber in the Anderson Galleries...
London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness...