Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word from me 3,000,000 youths will rush to my side and draw their swords to vindicate the rights of Italy. ... In every revolution some of the conquered have been put to the sword. The Fascisti have not done this until now, but it is never too late...
...Philadelphia, in 1860, and worked as a clerk in a railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine?when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding...
...There are several dark spots on the picture I have tried to draw. We do not know what led the Mayas to abandon their great cities in the south and move northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...
...journalists were clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public which will pay the price to be stung...
...Offenses against the ethics and etiquet of the game are unpardonable, as they are not subject to prescribed penalties." (Examples: playing a card ostentatiously to draw a partner's attention; deceitful hesitation; Dummy leaving his seat to watch Declarer's play...