Word: ink
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs of $15,000 and up. The fact that Mr. Soong named none of these big subscribers brought fresh Japanese...
...demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece of stone, reflected afterward...
...Moorish Spain to Provence, how painting began in Italy, became oil painting in Flanders. Dogmatic homilies together with disarming confessions of his own amateur standing appear in every chapter. If the reader wants to know something about Chinese art, advises the sensible lecturer, let him get Chinese brushes and ink and try it. Scattered throughout the book are no less than 180 drawings ranging from scraggly diagrams to colored sketches of a Dutch harbor intended to show how painters of different schools depicted it. Caption: "As for the nonobjective virtuosi, they, of course, had the easiest time...
...clock: Now they're really on their way. A steady stream from now until moon. "Have ya got any ink?" "God! Did you ever have to write so much!" "Is this what those exams here are like?" "What a noise that bell makes." "Would you like to pay this $5 now?" "Brother, if I had $3 now, I'd stand right up there and sing...
Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What...