Word: paints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving the scene of the crime the manicurist abandoned his implements, including a can of paint with the name A. B. Dawson written on it. Dawson, director of the laboratories, was not reached for comment yesterday...
...Augustus John's first decades as a painter. While he was supposed to be teaching at Liverpool University in 1904 he disappeared for weeks at a time on camping trips with gypsies. He once left a train at Marseille and traveled all the way back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers and his trick of looking fierce...
...grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors as Joseph's coat, and a pair...
...padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with back pay, 2) furnished more than one clean shirt a week, 3) provided free war paint. Sent back to the show by Collier, the Sioux refused to perform. In a big frontier-drama act where white men were supposed to make Indians bite the dust, for two performances there was not a Sioux Indian to bite...
There was almost a crisis in the inspection when Colonel Collins detected white paint on the back of the belt of one of the Senior officers...