Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Edgar Snow, 31-year-old, Missouri-born Far Eastern correspondent of the New York Sun and London Daily Herald, got into Soviet China by means of such melodramatic dodges as a letter written in invisible ink, meetings with Soviet spies in Chiang Kai-shek's army, a night trip through the front lines. Last week, in a 474-page volume* that John Gunther (Inside Europe) called "as good a job of reporting as has ever been done," he gave U. S. readers the results of his four months' observation of Soviet China, his nine years...
...show which opened last week was a year ahead of the time the artist had planned to give it. Among 37 paintings and drawings were the first Gershwin still-life, done in 1929, several pen-and-ink drawings which showed that the Jazz King had made himself a sensitive draftsman by 1931, and later work in oils. Good pictures...
...their imaginations to more cheerful use turned out pictures of landscapes inspired by romantic literature: Dunbarton Castle, The Lady of the Lake, A View in Asia. Boys who seldom went in for velvet or water colors got their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school in 1861. He drew...
Although the mistress of the house commented with suspicion on the fact that the bricks came from the CRIMSON'S back yard, and that the rag was stained with printers' ink, a through checkup in this vicinity proved that such suspicions were both unfounded and unneighborly...
After showing large surpluses on 1935 and 1936, the Athletic Association budget slipped into the red ink column with a deficit of $758.61 for the year ending June...