Word: quill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story concerns the difficulties encountered by one Harry Quill, a rug salesman with a yen for old time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls...
This highly complex, most professional diplomatic deal was closed by signing with quill pens one protocol, eight accords and declarations, three exchanges of notes. Total: about 5,000 words...
...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...
...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 in 1861. He drew his painstaking pictures of Julius Caesar, a stage coach, an Indian chief in his copy book...
...general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 15), but three of his 51 years were spent in Tsarist prisons. Another Fusion minority member elected by the American Labor Party in The Bronx was bull-necked Michael J. Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland and still carries a bullet in his left hip. Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America...