Word: itch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviver of the art of true fresco. Few months ago he lectured before Dartmouth College's Department of Art. Dartmouth's chief pride is a new Georgian library, gift of the late George Fisher Baker. It has nice new walls that made Muralist Orozco's fingers itch. In no time at all he was after the trustees for permission to decorate them...
When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...itch for gay trappings threatens to take more starting form. Blazers are just over the horizon: and once these receive the blessing. Joseph's coat of many colors will indeed become fruitful and infinitely multiply. Heraldie rabbita will cavort on Levereff pajamas; tennis shoes will be tricked out in tri-color; and at length an Eliot man will wear from tip to too the azure and red that proclaim him every inch an elephant...
...Author. Philip Guedalla, 42, after a brilliant career at Oxford (where he was President of the Union and "took a first" in Modern History), went to London to practice law and politics. His itch for history was too much for him; in 1923 he dropped everything else to scratch with both hands. Of a proper historian he says: "He must reconstruct the past, set old breezes stirring once again, and-most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty...
...compelled to pause in their pursuits to evade the buzzing and pestering of the musca [fly] Ambruster. . . . The Journal . . . will continue to devote little of its interest ot space in the future to unfounded charges, to insinuations without evidence, to the calling of names, or to cacoethes scribendi [itch for writing] on the part of any commercial assailant...