Word: lithographer
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...Lakefront station has also been a sore point for years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
...Where Babbitt Senior would have used a lithograph of Whistler's Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...
...Look. In Depew, N.Y., U.S. Secret Service agents who seized a printing press and rounded up two men reported several new wrinkles in the counterfeiting trade: besides finding a lithograph plate designed for printing phony tickets to South Pacific, they learned that the counterfeiting ring had been offering West Coast outlets their choice of either new or old twenty-dollar bills-i.e., with or without the White House balcony...
...Moreno was a short, heavy-set man whose pale eyes and greying countenance made him look not unlike a Rivera self-portrait in lithograph...
...last she ever made, was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (see cut). Aged, sick and nearly blind, Kathe Kollwitz had pictured herself in profile and alone, turned aside in exhaustion from her Christian task. In 1945, soon after she finished the lithograph, death came to 78-year-old Kathe Kollwitz...