Word: lithographer
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Since the atheistic, anarchistic Camorra has been theoretically wiped out in Fascist Italy by Il Duce, Contributor Mussolini prudently lays the scene of his novel in New York. Tricolore's cover carries a gaudy lithograph showing a U. S. Coast Guard officer blazing away with a shotgun at a fleeing motorboat filled with scowling Black Handers...
...comes nearest to apologizing for this tour de force in introducing his highly colored literary lithograph of Wilson: "It is not some faded whimsicality that induces me to include Wilson ... in these studies, and to end with him, but the conviction that so alone can the structure be roofed. . . . Whereas . . . every other adventurer has fought for himself . . . Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race...
...Divine Lady-Animated lithograph of the death of Lord Nelson...
Among the modern artists the acquisition of a curious lithograph entitled "The Comedy of Death" by the eccentric Rudolphe Bresdin, a French draughtsman, is of interest. Bresdin, a bohemian of bohemians, has been pictured by Champlioury as living like and Indian savage in Montmartre, alternately starving and sharing new carrots with his pet rabbic, Petiot. His work reflects his own bizarre personality and is vividly imaginative, yet drawn with microscopic detail...
...Correspondent Seldes added specific details. He spoke of "pagan tribesmen riding horses like mountain goats" and of "a Druse gendarme who welcomes Americans because he had relatives who rode in Barnum's circus." Beside a Greek ikon in a native stone hut, he found "a faded lithograph of Lillian Russell† in tights...