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Word: canvasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a studio on the quiet campus of the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture last week Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry put the last dab of paint on a 20-foot sweep of canvas, laid down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Land Office Business | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Although the Duke of Windsor, 45, looks more and more like the late John D. Rockefeller, 98, and his lean Duchess, 43, looks more and more like herself, they have recently been annoyed by long-distance peeckers who watch them at play in their seaside bathing pool near Cannes. Hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

For the most part, visitors to his one-man show last week agreed with Mrs. Macdonald. Bilbo's sloppy, raw-hued pirates, animals, nudes and caricatures of Hitler looked as if he had dipped his gat in the paint pot and then let fly at the canvas. But with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

After that other incidents meant little. Once photographers in an automobile crowded the Lindbergh car off a New Jersey road trying to get a shot at Baby Jon Lindbergh. Once there was another kidnap alarm because a canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Even as recently as last April, Vag welcomed spring with a light-hearted allegory. It was all voices on the river. Feminine, always tinkling girlish sounds and sights. Bicycles and boats. Taut canvas that at last could relax and fold down to make open and animate cars of winter-closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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