Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filled every two months, the bins discharge slowly through a s-ft. pipe into a tin pie plate as the birds empty it. The device is fastened about two feet from the ground, enclosed in natural-looking brush. Four openings are left in the brush so the birds may make a hasty exit when vermin come in. Put out on Christmas morning, one feeder was reported three days later to have attracted thousands of birds...
...married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest to the U. S. public today if her son James Abbott McNeill Whistler had not grown to be a great artist, had not painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past...
...September issue of Life bears on its cover a caricature mask of Franklin Delano Roosevelt affixed to the sitting body of a boy doll. Between the doll's outspread feet is a pie, upon which rests what might be an apple or a tomato. Caption: "Let's See What a Good...
Most striking is the life-like perspective of the group. The pie looks really edible. The doll's hands look as if they could be grasped. Reason for this is that the design was not a painting but a color photograph of the objects, an innovation in magazine cover work...
Artist Epstein, who has taken the name Abner Dean, made the Roosevelt mask. A doll was bought from Macy's. Christmas pies being out of season, a strawberry pie was substituted and a plum from an unemployed fruit vendor. At the plant of Powers Engraving Co. the group was posed against a yellow cardboard background before a color camera. Four exposures were made, one for each cardinal color, one for the black, upon transparent plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came...