Word: pens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show which opened last week was a year ahead of the time the artist had planned to give it. Among 37 paintings and drawings were the first Gershwin still-life, done in 1929, several pen-and-ink drawings which showed that the Jazz King had made himself a sensitive draftsman by 1931, and later work in oils. Good pictures...
Little girl escapists who put their imaginations to more cheerful use turned out pictures of landscapes inspired by romantic literature: Dunbarton Castle, The Lady of the Lake, A View in Asia. Boys who seldom went in for velvet or water colors got their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school...
...seldom happens that Harvard's serious and humorous magazines achieve their several ends. For instance, its humorous publication has this month posed the most serious problem to come from an undergraduate pen in some time. Perhaps contemplating the idealism that permeates the Christmas season, the author has hatched some pertinent observations on youth and the inevitable deterioration of its altruism. To these speculations it may be possible to append some tentative conclusions...
...fountain-pen until you see the whites of their eyes," is the advice of older students with high records for getting instructors' signatures, and they offer simple strategy. The student desiring a particular signature should dress himself as a member of the maintenance department and enter the teacher's apartment on the heels of the maid. Sooner or later the victim, too, will go into his room to get his mail, and, if the student's disguise is a good one, will not notice anything until the intruder grips him by the elbow and takes one of the three types...
...work he keeps irregular hours, prefers to compose late at night. He proudly remembers that in his younger days he often worked three nights and two days at a stretch. Seldom does he use the piano when composing. He conceives and elaborates his ideas in his mind and puts pen to paper only when every detail of the score has been thought out. Once his notes are down on paper, he seldom makes alterations, and has often sent scores to publishers without bothering to try them out on any instrument...