Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated intellectual howitzer but something considerably easier to take: a self-taught artist who had a fresh way of seeing things and a gift for getting them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral in a submarine grotto; funny little birds, fish and gargoyles were as minutely detailed as fingerprints...
Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed...
...sample issue has an off-white hard cover, with a second, illustrated cover visible through a triangular peephole. Flair abounds with other tricks. There is an accordion-style pull-out on interior decoration, a pocket-sized book insert, a swatch of cotton fabric, even a page written in invisible ink that can be read when it is heated by a lighted match...
...Approach. Last week an advance guard of experts was already at work in Washington, examining a preliminary statement of Britain's situation furnished by London. Sir Stafford Cripps, who will be the British delegation chairman, secluded himself in his Gloucestershire home, jotted down neat notes (appropriately in red ink) from a pile of Treasury briefs that mounted during the week from 20 to 42. He was reported, among other things, to be weighing the chances and consequences of a further slash in U.S. imports to slow the alarmingly rapid drain of his country's dollar reserves...
This week, Behr-Manning began foiling imitators. Henceforth, its trademark will be stamped with a special ink on every piece of Norzon. Even when hidden by the lining, the stamp will show up under an X-ray machine such as many shoe stores now use for fitting...