Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indefinitely suspended from their college for spreading brown paint on Harvard buildings, twelve students of Brown University sent a letter of apology to Deans Watson and Bender, which was received yesterday...
Meanwhile, six students yesterday wired the Brown Daily Herald that they consider Brown's suspension of 12 students Thursday "too severe" a punishment. The Brown men had smeared Widener's columns with brown paint, a stunt which the telegraphers called "an obvious juvenile prank...
...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
...soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character. I've always tried to find the fine things rather than to make a sneering comment...
...once the babies had been emptied, "vivisectors claimed that science acknowledged no morals; plutocrats held that business is business and nothing else; Anacreontic writers put vine leaves in their hair and drank or drugged themselves to death . . . bright young things daubed their cheeks with paint and their nails and lips with vermilion, made love to soldiers, kept up their spirits with veronal tablets, and changed into battered old demireps in their twenties...