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...beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
...much of his college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit to Felix's--dinner with the Housemaster tonight. The Class...
...artist printed fewer and fewer proofs, limiting the total to from 25 to 100 and then destroyed the plate. And he charged correspondingly more for each proof because they were so few. Furthermore about 65 years ago it became customary for the artist to sign each print in pencil, no doubt to show that he approved of its quality...
...None of the Old Masters issued prints limited to 100 proofs and signed in pencil. One never finds a Rembrandt etching, or a print by Dürer, Mantegna, Van Dyck, Goya, Turner, Delacroix or Daumier so signed and limited. These masters or their dealers printed impressions as long as people wanted them...
...nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly puncture a nerve slimmer than the lead of a pencil. If he misses the nerve, the alcohol causes dreadful pain. Many victims prefer the neuralgia...