Word: gauntness
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Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which...
Roger H. Bullard offered a case full of transfixed butterflies. Christopher Grant LaFarge is another butterfly hunter, while his son gaunt Christopher ("Kipper") LaFarge exhibited some costume designs for eunuchs...
...subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
Untypical U. S. athlete is Ohio State's junior, Jack Keller, whose 14 sec. time in the 120-yd. high hurdles beat Percy Beard's A. A. U. record of 14.2 sec. A John Galsworthy enthusiast, 6 ft. 3½ in. tall, gaunt and saturnine, he is married, has refused to join a college fraternity. As a high-school freshman he stood around watching Ohio State's Star Sprinter George Simpson but the track coach put him into the hurdles instead. Last week, after winning the high hurdles, he seemed on his way to a low hurdles...
Ralph Teetor, Lothair's cousin, has been blind since boyhood. This did not prevent him from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...