Word: chiseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained behind bolted doors in his laboratory, with his furnace and two stoves going full blast, and the water running contin- uously. He left word that he was "performing experiments." By the following Wednesday the janitor had become suspicious, and attacked the brick vault in the basement with a chisel. By Friday, one week after Parkman's disappearance, the janitor had opened a hole large enough to introduce light. A human thigh and pelvis were revealed. Other parts of Parkman's dissected body were found in a blood-bath around the room. Webster was arrested...
...these days of signers and counter-signers, collateral and credit investigators, a man who can chisel a bank is rare indeed. Last week, after a fortnight at their adding machines, red-faced country bankers in three Eastern states totted up losses of better than $800,000 as victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch...
Last week-33 years, 275 days and 18 hours after a chisel smashed the skull of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - the summons came to Prisoner 9306-D in Stateville
House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...
...greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process, Barlach's "expressionism" becomes less expressive...