Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to...
The architectural profession is striving to carry on, to believe in beauty, and to eat during a period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75...
In the largest theatre in the world, the International Music Hall of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, workmen with buckets of white lead were busy last week pasting up the world's largest mural painting, a curved 60-by-40-ft. canvas by Ezra Winter, showing an old man...
But none of Rockefeller Center's murals startles the beholder quite so much as a large canvas hung this autumn in the spectacular foyer of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman...
The Vagabond, dozing in his favorite armchair, and pulling peacefully on his favorite briar, watched a bookcase full of forbidding volumes slowly sink into a summer sea, precisely the same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A...