Word: daub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor George Howard Earle III presumably did not rise from Republican riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
...like Mr. Santayana's father; and though it is not true, as many have thought, that Santayana tried to reveal his own personality through Oliver and Mario still they do reflect a bit of his general character. It seems to me that Mr. Santayana, like Oliver, is deeply moral. Daub his philosophy what you will, there is always the moral flavor. It is this morality that bridges his materialism with his mysticism. But this is all another story...
Negroes who want to hide their markings daub themselves with black coffee, potassium permanganate solution or dilute iodine. Will Pickens White last week indicated that he would never tint his whiteness. Said he: "God intended to let people know what He could do. Now that I am white, I would rather stay that...
...quick call for reinforcements brought out the men who apparently are retained just to wait for such an occurance, complete with a gasoline compound known in technical terms as aluminum paint remover. By 8 o'clock the next morning all was dull bronze again save for a suspicious silver daub on one foot, and due to Harvard's well-known aversion to early rising, nobody was the wiser...
Modern architecture is not confined to New York. The new style stressing the horizontal line in low two-story residential buildings with great rectangular areas of cement and glass, has materialized in a large homestead development in Vite Park, Cleveland, where the New York architects, Clauss and Daub have made a venture. An art Guild Hall in Darien, Connecticut, is an example of the latest developments carried out on a large scale. In Berlin, prominent residences are done in the chaste modern style. In Soviet Russia, and near Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people...