Word: chisels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...Imbricaria in the Pacific, the Chief Engineer, one James Scott, mangled his finger in a flywheel so that white bone grinned through the flesh. Amputation was necessary. The tug's captain downed a pony of whisky, hammered off Air. Scott's finger with a mallet and cold chisel...
...WTTH PENCIL, BRUSH AND CHISEL-Emil Fuchs-Putnam ($7.50). ** Victoria...
...night, in a Northeaster, a strange ship blew into Portsmouth. Next day, a man who walked like a cat was seen going up the hill to the graveyard. He surveyed the monument with a puckered face, took a chisel from his pocket, added a postscript: RETURNED TO THIS LIFE, APRIL 18TH...
Maillol attempts a direct treatment of essential form and line in an effort to interpret the inner truth which he and Matisse strive to dissect. The distorted drawing and crude modelling is the result of artistic conviction, rather than inability to draw or chisel...