Word: inked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "Having accepted the seals of office, and looking back over the past five days, I am more proud of our Empire than I ever was before we passed through this momentous period. A sort of bloodless revolution has taken place. The most that has been spilled is ink...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...what there is of it generally serves but as a background for a subtle parable. Subtlety and power are indeed more evident in these few verses than in most of the modern American poetry we have read. Coming back once more to our friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sarah Teasdale. But always he is masculine as we might expect of one who in a short but varied career...
...Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...
...average consumption per man, woman, and child per minute, day and year, will alone cause many gallons of ink to flow and many heads to nod in the wee small hours of the morning as this work goes breathlessly on. After these fundamentals have been touched on there will be endless startling revelations as to how many times those fifteen billion pieces of gum would encircle the globe if laid end to end, and how much the Salvation Army could get for the fifteen billion wrappers. Some especially gifted specialist will figure the horse power output of the jaws...