Word: crayoned
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...professor: "Now, your first-grade paper must be nine by twelve inches in size, and the lines must run the length of the page. Some school systems use eight by ten-and-a-half paper, but I think that's a bad mistake. Before that, you use a crayon. Now, why do you think you use a crayon...
They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil War, and their mission was not to write of battle but to portray the terrible visage of war. Their implements, besides the pencil, were the crayon, the brush and the sketchbook. Their lot was to go wherever the winds of combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox...
...center: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Luckily, Jack Kennedy can laugh at jokes about himself, his family and his religion-for such jokes were the U.S. rage last week. Among them: CJ Directions for making a "Kennedy quarter": take an ordinary 25? piece and some red fingernail polish or red crayon. Color George Washington's head down almost to the ear. Also color the lower part of Washington's neck, down to the coin's rim. The result: a passable likeness of Pope John XXIII...
...just read a nasty quip about what it would be like to have Jack Kennedy's expected child and his small daughter in the White House [spilled milk, crayon marks on the hallowed walls, etc.]. One would do well to read up on what happened when Teddy Roosevelt's family was there. At least the little Kennedy girl is not big enough to ride a pony through the White House...
Psychological Substance. Nichols can be alternately Harlequin and Pantaloon, his crayon-blue eyes and round, astonished mouth suggesting that he finds the world just a little too much to cope with. Elaine is a dark-eyed Columbine of many moods who wears her immemorial, feminine wisdom a little uncomfortably, like an ill-fitting evening dress. Just as the commedia players ridiculed the braggarts and poltroons, cuckolds and scheming Don Juans, Mike and Elaine act out caricatures of their own time and place-the phony intellectual, the lecherous boss and his confused secretary, the little man at the mercy...