Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many cartoons have I drawn in my life? Well. I've been drawing an average of at least 300 a year, and I've been working about 30 years. That makes about 9,000 cartoon, call it 10,000, counting rough drafts and unused ideas and everything...
...love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural...
...could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils; the puffy lower lip; even separate hairs of the beard are drawn out, and the hair, loosely combed off the forehead, would wave gently if blown on. Then move away...
When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
...check drawn against the Corn Exchange Bank of Manhattan...