Word: pencilers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showcase of the arts. It also owes an illustrious tablecloth which went on view last week at the Museum of the City of New York. As far back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time...
...soon entertained by the hospitality of Sibelius and his wife. Of the composer's appearance he says only a word: "His head was impressive; the mass of Strindberg's without the madness." The interview was typical of the author. He was not, like Boswell, "out with his notebook and pencil as soon as the car left the gate." In his own words, he says, "To me it all seems to have passed in a dream, ending with a stirrup-cup of John Haig and the kindest of partings...
...sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...
...Principal Newsmaker," but few churchmen conceive of the Deity as a Great Editor. In England, however, a number of members of the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman last summer enlisted God's aid in a journalistic venture. In their "quiet times" every morning they took pencil & paper, jotted down what they believed to be divine instructions on problems of makeup, caption-writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies in England last month. On U. S. newsstands this week...
...would not be difficult for the desk clerks to inspect the margins of the pages of each book when it is returned, as this would merely involved a rapid thumbing of the pages to see if any ink or pencil had been applied to the text by amateur artists or writers. This would make it much easier to apprehend the criminal, and this systematic check in itself would deter youthful vandals from their own desires to destroy University property...