Word: needleworkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anything served Artist-Philosopher Klee for bricks. Starting around 1900 with meticulous etchings and realistic portraits, he was soon collecting ideas for paintings from needlework, mosaics, carpets, runic stones, the scrawls of children and madmen. No matter how simple the material he borrowed, his perceptive, neurotic vision transformed it into something immeasurably sophisticated. He experimented endlessly with techniques, scratched designs on blackened glass, painted on burlap, mixed his media until it was impossible to describe a painting as oil, watercolor or tempera...
...cooperation with local authorities and the Ministries of Labor and Education, the Institute will offer training courses for domestics. Aspirants for the Institute diploma, if they are over 18, will be schooled in budgeting, needlework, cooking, laundry work, house repairs, etc. Those under 18 will take a stiffer course in the same subjects, and will receive further instruction in cultural matters, so that they may improve their increased leisure time...
...house. "Well, child," she said to Edwina, "what are you waiting for?" Poor, flustered Edwina, whose childhood dated back to the days of the St. Louis World's Fair (and whose corset hurt her, besides), stammered, "But, mother, aren't you . . .?" Edwina sprang nervously, dropped her needlework, began fussing with her dress and her hair. By the time she reached the front hall, the colored maid had opened the door. There was Mal, her brother. And there, standing with him, was Nora, his grown daughter, whom none of the family had ever seen...
This week our Information Center here in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building is filled with needlework, oil paintings, gadgets, fruit, flowers, and some vegetables-entries in TIME Inc.'s annual Country Fair for employes who fancy their horticultural and artistic capacities. Generally, of course, the Information Center is filled with its own news exhibits-and visitors...
...personage, and hopped back to Paris trailing clouds of speculation. Meantime in Paris his shocked valet de chambre scotched the tale of the shirt, informed reporters: "But really he would never think of having his shirts mended in London. This is the place for that. Why, in Paris the needlework is simply extraordinary...