Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...want ever to be in a position of criticizing our Administration, but I do think that all this hue & cry about collective bargaining could have been considerably less expensive if some ground rules had been set up. As it was, the early stages of the conflict resembled very much a ball game without an umpire and with everybody in the grandstands hollering advice. . . ." Four days later in Detroit, President Homer Martin of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem...
...which one branch of his family had helped settle three centuries ago) to recuperate. He stayed 15 years, working on cattle ranches, ending as owner of a dairy farm near Johannesburg; had no thought of writing until five years ago, when, bursting with Boer legends, he returned to London, ground some of his material into London magazine serials, used the remainder in the present novel. Tall, mustached, handsome, he would like (having visited Manhattan) to divide his time between England and the U. S., is meditating a series of connected novels to bring Boer history down to date...
Prepared to run through a five or sixman line, the blue attack met up with a seven-man stonewall with a stick of dynamic in the form of Harry Gates behind it. Stopped on the ground the Elis turned to the air, and there a severe case of butterfingers struck all the receivers except Al Hessberg...