Word: draftsmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate upon "a bill which is not only one of the worst pieces of legal draftsmanship on record, but moreover so mangled by amendments that the Government ought to redraft it entire . . . . " Conservatives shouted that the Laborites ought to cooperate in redrafting the bill, a suggestion which so enraged Mr. Clynes that he uttered an able if unconscious "bull." Cried he: "Asking the Opposition to cooperate...
...pencil work is very little known because of the small number of finished paintings he produced, but for the vagabond who would wander outside the usual pale of masterpiece found in every hallway he presents a variety of work showing a very interesting stage in the development of draftsmanship...
...year-old Russian boy, Peter Miranov, found promise in his drawings. Troutman brought the boy back with him to Moscow, showed his work to Malieva, who declared that, apart from minor technique, he could teach him nothing, as the boy possessed the rarest of natural gifts−correct draftsmanship. Troutman continued further, interested the Soviet authorities, who have recently commissioned the boy to travel through the South to do landscapes for the State gallery...
...according to Mr. W. W. Norton, an officer of the People's Institute who is directing the project, an attempt to apply correspondence school methods to the teaching of academic subjects. There have long been correspondence schools which have given courses by mail in technical subjects such as draftsmanship, electricity and the like. But never before have these methods been attempted in the teaching of strictly academic subjects such as history, literature, philosophy, or psychology...