Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...
Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder...
...stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made,--one by the pencil of a student in his class, another in oils by a lady who had followed him on the street...
...stands a very round, very jolly, very careful man named Joseph McCoy. In his so's, Mr. McCoy is the Government's actuary, the Treasury's chief gazer info 'the fiscal future. How much will the U. S. collect next year in income taxes? Mr. McCoy scratches with a pencil, adds, subtracts, consults a sheaf of papers, brings forth an answer. How many cigarets will be smoked? How many men will die to leave large estates? How many shares of stock will change hands? On all these matters, from which the U. S. derives revenue, Mr. McCoy can produce answers...
...went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect...