Word: handiworks
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...Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week's threat came from the City Hall where Mayor Charles D. White...
...school which he designed and built himself, Professor Gropius inaugurated a new curriculum that provided for students familiarizing themselves with the actual handiwork of construction. This new course of study, he said, enabled him to be asked to lecture here...
...right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...
Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
...Visible only under a microscope is the smallest inscription in the world, 127 let ters of a verse from St. Luke, written by Ox Fibre Brush Co.'s president. Alfred McEwen of New York. Latest McEwen handiwork in the collection is 294 letters of the Lord's Prayer done with a one-hair brush in a space no bigger than a hole made by a needle...