Word: pencilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time is that the message will not be a long one-and also that it will not be a short one." For weeks President Hoover has been carrying around a little 5? pad of paper in his pocket, jotting down random message ideas with a stubby pencil...
...Sculptors gallery last week together with some splendid" line drawings and at least one excellent landscape. There were many other pictures strongly reminiscent of the advanced striving's of a Businessmen's Art Class. In a book of reproductions of his paintings entitled CIOPW (Charcoal, Ink, Oilcolors, Pencil, Watercolors) he solemnly included little figures he had scrawled on the back of publishers' royalty checks...
More cats than a critic could shake a pencil at were assembled in the rooms of New York's Maurel Gallery last week in one of the most amusing exhibitions of the season. Persian. Manx, Maltese, Siamese, Angora, tortoise-shell and tabby were all there in wood, pottery, glass, ivory, lead, bronze, marble, in oils, etchings, lithographs, water colors. Enthusiastic cat collectors and neighboring art galleries had loaned over 700 different representations of cats which, according to the Maurel Gallery's foreword, are one of the "eternal themes...
...great football coachesGlennScobie Warner of Stanford and Robert Carl Zuppke of Illinois- known to the public respectively as Pop & Zup-were having a joint exhibition, not of new play diagrams or designs for uni- forms, but of paintings they themselves had done. On view were landscapes, watercolors, pencil sketches actually executed by two famed hemen. Best known to the art world are the opera of Illinois' chunky, spluttering Germanic Zup. Coach Zuppke was a painter before he was a football coach. In 1905 he arrived in New York with $4 in his pockets and earned a precarious living...
Throughout the land last week school children were buying pencil-boxes and book-straps, getting fitted with new shoes. School was about to begin once more. This year, estimated the Federal Office of Education, the school and college population would be 31,000,000-more than one-fourth the total population of the U. S. The number of children in school, it said, increases steadily. The school year, averaging 172 days of work, is ten days longer than it was in 1920. Soon colleges will open for some 1,500,000 students. Some phenomena of 1930 school & college openings...