Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest surprise was the award of the $1,500 first prize to France's André Dunoyer de Segonzac for a sketchy landscape of St. Tropez. Painter de Segonzac, 49, is an important artist, has won the gratitude of Riviera realtors by first discovering the possibilities of the Gulf...
A mixed force of 200 bluejackets and Royal Marines tumbled out of motor lorries at Serowe, Bechuanaland last week, set up a strong wire barricade, a khaki tent fly for a canopy and unfolded two canvas chairs. A host of 15,000 chattering, grinning natives gathered round the fence, for...
Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his...
By the end of the sixth round, the cut on Jeby's cheek was an ugly purple welt, his large, hooked nose was bleeding and everyone in the crowd of 12,000 except his managers knew he was a beaten man. At the beginning of the seventh, they counseled...
On Saturday afternoons in 1859 Manhattanites trooped to Hope Chapel at Broadway and Eighth Street. At the door "scholars" paid 6?, all others 15?. Inside they climbed a dark stairway to a big covered platform. Hidden gas lamps above lit a circle of landscapes 15 ft. high. Soon a lecturer...