Word: paints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Human nature is at its worst when it comes across a sign saying "paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove...
...imaginative painter hit upon a much more satisfying if not a more satisfactory solution. He hung a forest of "paint" signs all along the wall but left room for a large square one at the top of the stairs that smiled down upon the painting pedestrians as it remarked...
...signs along the language frontiers and in areas visited by tourists. This seemed like good business even to the most zealous Fleming, but to Florimond Grammens it appeared as sabotage of the language laws. Believing in direct action, M. Grammens bought a brush and a pot of black paint, began to wander along the countryside hunting out French inscriptions which hurt his patriotic Flemish feelings. Soon numerous young Flemish students joined...
...less than 24 hours Florimond Grammens had resumed his painting, soon after led his "school" of gay students in an Anschluss raid into the predominantly French town of Enghien, intending to paint it Flemish. Equally zealous French-speaking students drove them...
Died. Katharine Augusta Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely...