Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malden, close up, you could see the President was wearing heavy make-up. On his face was eye-brow pencil and rouge; his jowels sagged, and he looked very old. "Now all I want you to do is examine the record . . . . See how Republicans have voted in Congress . . . . then go and vote for your own interest . . . keep things the way they are . . . vote Democrat." The crowd was with him. "Let me introduce my biggest asset." Truman was beaming. "Margic, come here." Margaret waved. Then, one by one, the welcoming committee stopped up to the platform and shook hands with...
...remembered about the slip he had picked up on the way in, and fished it out of his breast pocket. "Presidential Preference Poll" it said, "please write in the candidate and party you are supporting for the presidency." Vag waited a moment, chewed up the end of a pencil, and then scribbled in, "Darlington Hoopes, Socialist...
...teacher, Harvey Corbett, offered him a partnership. Harrison jumped at the chance, and for "the next four years designed a series of auditoriums and office buildings with Corbett. Architecture was almost his entire life. There was always a drawing board in his room and a pad & pencil by his bed. In the morning, his wife usually found the floor littered with scrawls and sketches...
Slab-shaped buildings-long and narrow but tall enough to be vast-are exciting today's architects as pencil-point skyscrapers did their predecessors. No man has done more than Wallace Harrison to make the idea a reality: he cloaked it with stone in creating Rockefeller Center and with glass in the U.N. Secretariat...
Another famous Irishman, James Joyce, sat for a series of pencil sketches. "He had a precise and buttoned-up appearance . . . He explained that the poverty of his beard was due to an early accident to his chin, but I did not feel empowered to restore the missing growth. In spite of his cold and formal exterior, I was much drawn to Joyce and, on finally parting with him . . . to his consternation, embraced him in the continental manner...