Word: paintbrush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means for leaving the stage. Schooled by Belasco-who has so often seen talent where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds for Divorce, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). She has managed to withstand the floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night...
...improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush handles. President Coolidge has raised the tariff on such important commodities as wheat, butter, pig iron...
...Connecticut farmhouse, Inventor Arthur S. Ford, a comfortably built man with a generous mustache, played with a paintbrush and window screen. Filling up the wire squares with paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into...
...gallon, thereby using the full extent of his power under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922, which authorizes him to change duties within limits of 50%. This is the eighth time that President Coolidge has raised the tariff; twice (on live bob white quail and paintbrush handles) he has lowered it. ¶General Humbert Nobile, pilot and builder of the dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President...
...vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that he left grammar school he devoted himself furiously to the studies that made him the greatest of U. S. landscape painters. In his studios in Montclair, N. J., in Washington Square, he worked stripped to the waist, with...