Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bloodgood Was Right...
...lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept two out of three into death during the great epidemics of the middle centuries, so this modern Black Plague periodically sweeps two out of three from the ranks of reasonable men and therefore deprives them for the time of the right to al themselves civilized. The doctor has eradicated the old Black Plague, or has driven it into the dark corners of the earth. Never again will it sweep the crowd in cities, striking as it goes. Today the doctors of public opinion, the men who write, who edit, who produce...
...William Hurd Lawrence was a successful right-handed illustrator. In 1927 he is a successful left-handed painter. In 1937, he hopes to be a successful ambidextrous illustrator & painter. This evolution resulted from an accident that occurred 20 years ago. Then Mr. Lawrence illustrated for Harper's Weekly. His wife took sick, so he was forced to concentrate upon illustration almost to the exclusion of his first love, water color. His sketches demanded travel-Europe, the West Indies, South America. It was on a South American tour that the sun beat him into partial paralysis. His right hand hung...
...accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper's. Now that a full score of years has passed, he is able to exhibit water colors painted with his left hand better than illustrations painted with his right...
Ironically enough, now that the left hand has learned the cunning that was lost by the right, the right shows symptoms of returning to health. "See," says Artist Lawrence, slowly lifting his paralyzed arm, "I will soon be able to use them both...