Word: inks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misty, rain-driven darkness settled over Soldiers Field last night, eleven CRIMSON iron men wound up their last grueling practice session. This afternoon at 4 o'clock in some far corner of Soldiers Field, the CRIMSON will gird up its ink-stained Joins and go forth to do battle with the red-skinned, scalp-mad fury of the Daily Dartmouth...
Shahn's method is simplicity itself. In all scenes he uses a wash and fine ink lines. The backgrounds are almost uniformly a depressing blue. Seldom has any modern painter so eloquently depicted his subjects with such an economy of line. Every delineation is expressive, every curve is significant. There is something stark, some terrible frozen fear in every face. Shahn's creations seem to be cowering under some upraised fist...
...belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr...
...Royal Yacht Club at the King's absenting himself from their annual dinner. Not even Her Majesty could prevail upon Yachtsman George, who was having a gorgeous sea time. To soothe the proletariat Queen Mary went shopping alone several times in Cowes, bought all sorts of knicknacks, including an ink-spot remover...
...summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown. He wrote mostly at night, with the win- dow shut on account of his asthma, "in an attitude as inconvenient as possible: a bad pen, a half-empty bottle of ink. . . . He held his sheet of paper in the air and wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three days at a stretch. Once...