Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary's office (see cut...
Realist: Then let her cut down on this expense and dress more simply...
...from the fifteenth century to the present day and as great a range of subjects as illustrations for the Bible to dancing figures by Toulouse-Lautrec. Among them are woodcut book-illustrations, numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper...
...dedication of the Dearborn memorials, Mr. Edison, Mr. Ford and a group approached the buildings to enter. Near the door was a fresh-laid sheet of concrete, around which the party started to walk. But not Mr. Edison. Always he takes the short cut and across the concrete he walked. It was soft. His shoes sank into it. Consternation came upon his face, then stubbornness. He plodded ahead leaving a string of footprints behind. Mr. Ford was delighted and said something flattering about "the sands of time." He gave orders that the footprints be allowed to harden, furthermore, he made...