Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When I feel the urge," said Mrs. Bush last week. "I simply pick up my brushes and begin, usually down in one corner of a large canvas, without the slightest idea what is going to happen. . . . However, I don't go into a trance or anything. Oh dear no...
...prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded as if Depression were over...
A thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay...
Mention of Commencement or of Class Day made the day before the Yale football game will doubtless catch many members of the University off guard. A natural reaction will be to read the news with a cold and hasty eye before passing on to the Harvard starting line-up. And...