Word: charcoaling
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...Nazi spirit was strong everywhere. In a recreation hall was an art exhibit put up for the occasion. A denim-clad curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...western China, 150 miles northwest of Chungking. Children between the ages of seven and 13, under their teachers' guidance, expressed their reactions to war, caricatured their Japanese enemies, drew political cartoons. One drawing, by 13-year-old Peng Teh-chuan, made use of the Chinese proverbial phrase Giving Charcoal in Snowy Weather ("A friend in need is a friend indeed") by picturing a forceful Roosevelt rushing aid to a stern Stalin...
...plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard...
...derailed (one killed). The 80th victim of the wreck of the P.R.R.'s swift Congressional (TIME, Sept. 13) died in a Philadelphia hospital. Then, same day, an eight-alarm, $250,000 blaze swept through Philadelphia's old Broad Street station. Six empty passenger cars were burned to charcoal and scrap iron...
...machinery of Chinese aid." But it was not machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American flyers to his father's hospital...