Word: chiseler
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Metropolitan--"Tarnished Lady" La Bankhead in the process of carving a niche for La Bankhead, with Clive Brook holding the chisel...
...torso is realistically rounded. The lower part is an. exaggerated rotundity of all anatomy. The thighs (they are cut off just above the knees) are portly kegs. Focus of all the curves is the gestation. Commented the Daily Express: "You white foulness! This man cracks bad jokes with a chisel!" An interpreter: "It is supposed to illustrate a passage from the Book of Revelations how a woman 'clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet . . . appeared in Heaven . . . and being with child, cried.' " Sculptor Epstein: "Rot. My Genesis is not based on any passage...
...There is no point at which the development of the machine is a menace. An iron chisel is better than a flint one, and a steel chisel is better than an iron one. Could there be a point at which the cutting quality of the chisel could be made so fine that it would be a menace? Obviously...
...Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...
...years getting the material for this book. Born in Waitsburg, Wash., she was educated at the University of California, was one of the founder-editors of The Measure: A Journal of Verse (1920-26). Biographer Taggard teaches English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Other books: Words for the Chisel, Travelling Standing Still...