Word: paintbrush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist who painted them is a little, beak-nosed, birdlike Italo-American named Athos Menaboni who lives in Atlanta, where he takes time off from jobs as a muralist to range through the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a paintbrush. In six years Painter Menaboni has made 250 paintings of 97 native birds, says he has 150 more to do before using up the species Georgia has to offer...
...Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience as well as the funny-bone. After seven years...