Word: inking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Designs for the tickets are to be made on white paper with black India ink and are to be of a simple figure. The size of the tickets is to be four and one half by seven and one half inches, and the design should bear the following legend...
Last week hockey news was enlivened by two incidents. First in the New York World, Helen Wills, retired tennis champion, published some pen and ink drawings of professional hockey play-ers-graphic, clear and undistinguished drawings, very creditable for a tennis player. And in Boston a crowd stimulated a hockey game between the Bruins and the St. Patrick's team by throwing onto the ice 76 American pennies, one Canadian penny, one broken bottle, 65 cigar and cigaret butts, countless programs, and the yolks, the whites and the shells of four eggs...
...Most popular U. S. comic strip character, widely syndicated creation of Cartoonist George Herriman. At his partner-in-comedy, Krazy Kat, he throws hundreds of black ink bricks annually, his aim being uncanny accuracy. As a brick hits Krazy Kat, Ignatz often cries, "Phooey...
...living in Chicago then. He had come from Louisville, Ky., with no money and very little idea of what he would be able to do. He got a job tracing in pen-and-ink on silver-prints of photographs. Then he thought up jokes, illustrated them, sold them to a news syndicate for one dollar a piece. He got some orders for sport cartoons in Chicago papers and worked his way onto the staff of the Chicago American, and later of the Tribune. He illustrated the Sunday "feature" pages, made borders, designed "layouts." In his spare time he studied...
...corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest ink with his bare toes tweaking at each other through their sandal-thongs, his best kimono hanging in polite folds and his two hands clasped solicitously beneath an amiable squint-eyed grin. MUSA-SHIYA the SHIRTMAKER (Also kimono make & Dry good sell) obviously aimed to please. "This time," said his message...