Word: daub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days as a house painter, Adolf Hitler had an amateur's passion for water colors and oils. As a youth he peddled his postcardlike views of Vienna, Munich and romantic ruins from door to door, sold some for roughly a dollar a daub...
...kinship with the rest of the Moslem world, he plans to join the Arab League. "If anybody ever succeeds in cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya, "it will be the King. The cement is Islam-these people really believe and live Islam." (The first daub of cement: a royal decree establishing two capitals, the main one in Tripoli, and the second in Benghazi to allay Cyrenaican fears of Tripoli...
...weekend, Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg went to Dartmouth to daub themselves with campus color for a musical Fitzgerald was scripting. Into his recollections of that toot with one of the most single-minded tooters of his time, Schulberg has stirred almost everything else he knew about Fitzgerald, and everything he felt about Fitzgerald's self-neglected talents and the age they memorably expressed...
...says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself is invaded by another, equally ruthless genius-a ferocious sculptor who cheerfully hoists a vast block of rock through the studio window and sets to work with a chisel...
...What is a face?" Williams wrote. "What has it always been, even to the remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...