Word: crayon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hamilton, Ohio, filing a damage suit for $35,000, Mrs. Florence H. Wollford claimed that her neighbor Ada Krebs had 1) poured hot grease on her rosebushes, 2) covered her newly painted garage with crayon marks, 3) placed a hose in such a way that water threatened to undermine her house...
...performed his duties with gusto. His big study in Davis House was always crowded, but neither the babble nor the questions ever bothered him. Each night, "after the lights of the house were out, and the sheaf of absurd French exercises corrected and indignantly marked with red crayon," the boys in the rooms below would hear him begin his nightly pacing...
...abstract crystal and the amorphous potato: precise landscapes splashed with blocks of colors that happen to interest him. When Piper finds a combination he likes, he uses it again & again. He continues to look for new combinations and new techniques. His spare time lately has been spent with wax-crayon colors and in floating paint on water in a bathtub, then lifting off the bright swirling patterns on to a piece of paper. He will have a Manhattan show next year, and is "fiddling around" between. themes. "I don't think I'll ever go back to abstractions...
...Comic Jimmy Durante's TV show in Hollywood, Margaret Truman was led to a drawing board, blindfolded, handed a crayon and asked to connect a series of jumbled lines. When she finished, Jimmy unbandaged her eyes, rotated the board 90°. Margaret's product: "I LIKE IKE." Groaned she: "I don't dare go home tonight...
Last week John Hartford and the Burgers dropped into a busy A & P on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mr. John, who insists that every single item in the A & P carry a price mark, poked around looking for the tags and crayon marks. He told Manager William Smith (27 years with the A & P) a joke to put him at ease. "A fellow was stamping on prices," said John, "and I asked him how he was coming. Says he: 'Well, I got 500 cans of beans and found 700 termites. I'm having a hard time...