Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That year he wrote a letter to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who was director of the General Education Board. Enthusiasm brightened his ink. "The career of early man . . . can now be written out in a much fuller form. The materials out of which we can recover and put together its lost chapters lie scattered among the buried cities of the Near East. This whole region is about to come for the first time under western rule, and for the first time in history the birth lands of religion and civilization lie open to unobstructed study and research. In the entire...
...Painters & Sculptors gallery last week together with some splendid" line drawings and at least one excellent landscape. There were many other pictures strongly reminiscent of the advanced striving's of a Businessmen's Art Class. In a book of reproductions of his paintings entitled CIOPW (Charcoal, Ink, Oilcolors, Pencil, Watercolors) he solemnly included little figures he had scrawled on the back of publishers' royalty checks...
...silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed to begin painting on silk panels with a camel's hair brush, not with oil paints, but with Chinese ink or Sumi...
...Author. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge's ancestry is a rich mixture. Some of his forbears: Benjamin Franklin. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Artist John La Farge (grandfather), Architect Christopher Grant La Farge (father). Manhattan-born (1901), Author La Farge is called "Ink" by his intimates, has spent most of his life at Saunderstown, R. I. For schooling he naturally went to Groton, inevitably to Harvard. There he became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote...
...flag has not yet been made of bunting; it consists of ink and paper, constitutes not a merger but a pooling, a combination-the greatest in U. S. history. Involved in the deal are the Dollars, Kenneth Dawson, Paul Chapman, the Fleishhackers, P. A. S. & Son Franklin, Kermit Roosevelt, and a name famed on the seas but hitherto negligible in serious shipping, Vincent William Astor...