Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with artists because of the purely tactile pleasure of drawing in crayon on smooth stone. Since its discovery 139 years ago, this youngest of the great printmaking processes has been a valued sideline of many an important European and U. S. painter, the mainstay of at least one indubitable master, Honore Daumier. In spite of having cluttered up the earth with a God's plenty of "chromos,"† it has remained a fine as well as a commercial art. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts last week 527 of the handsomest prints that have been pulled from stone...
...hitherto undiscovered humorous postcards of Civil War camp life by U. S. Master Winslow Homer...
...Secretary Ickes. Last week Judge Stone ordered Attorney Donovan to cease quoting President Roosevelt, but Secretary Ickes is not likely to get off so easily, for he committed his ideas to writing in a letter to none other than the man the prosecution last week accused of being the "master mind" of the combine- Vice President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum...
...Without Women (1927) and Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart from Win, er Take Nothing (1933), a volume...
Speeches by Payson S. Wild, acting Master of the House, Eric T. Clarke '38, head of the Dance Committee, and Donald E. Burbank, Jr. '38, head of the Athletic Committee, will feature the dinner. Afterwards motion pictures, accompanied by a portable sound machine, will be seen in the Junior Common Room. Walt Disney cartoons and football and racehorse shorts will be shown...