Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank Wright had not been in Chicago a year before he was a draftsman in the office of Adler & Sullivan...
...show which opened last week was a year ahead of the time the artist had planned to give it. Among 37 paintings and drawings were the first Gershwin still-life, done in 1929, several pen-and-ink drawings which showed that the Jazz King had made himself a sensitive draftsman by 1931, and later work in oils. Good pictures...
...some years Malcolm Jameson, one-time chief draftsman in the U. S. Navy, felt that his present occupation of insurance salesman did not give him a full emotional outlet. At loss for a hobby, he purchased a large wooden salad bowl, heated the tip of an icepick red hot and traced on the bowl a map which he tastefully tinted with Mercurochrome. A group of Mr. Jameson's salad bowls, which he prefers to call "Segmaps," were on view in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, priced...
...partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant in 1917 as a draftsman...
...fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there is proof, too, of an internal emotion which possessed the draftsman and which at the time of composition must have disinclined him to any prosaic inquiry as to what the language really meant." Then he told the confused Philadelphia lawyer that the provisions of the will set up separate trusts...