Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These numbers are photographed in two extreme yet simple forms of lighting: chiaroscuro, in which the line of a cheek, the wrinkle of a sleeve, the keys of a fingered saxophone, appear as if drawn in white ink on black paper; and its opposite, in which the musicians appear in almost featureless silhouette against a staring, blank white background...
...more than 80 years, with a fresh supply of snuff, though nobody ever dips into it. And there's a little silver box on each desk. What do you think is in that? Burnt sand that we're supposed to use when we sign our names in ink. Well, our legislative system is about as anachronistic...
There Van Wyck Brooks awakens early each morning, reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal...
...citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called him "admiral of an ink pool" (Baldwin had said that Red Army advances were in part German retreats...
Katherine Ralston Goodwin, who freely admits that she is oldest of the Nine (44), is director of WACs in the Army Service Forces. Before she joined the Corps she kept house in Hartford, Conn., tended her flower garden, zipped through murder mysteries and pampered her Siamese cat, "Ink Mink." When she leased her house she put a clause in the contract that the tenants would also have to care for Ink Mink...