Word: roughhewn
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...fishing village on the coast of Maine, paints Maine's rocks, trees and seas subjectively and with intimate under standing; nature forms the architecture of his world. Thon's luxurious frame house, which he has built with his own hands, is like one room in the vast, roughhewn, sky-ceilinged mansion of his surroundings. His self-appointed task is to translate those surroundings into a few square feet of painted canvas-to bring the outdoors indoors and hang it on a wall...
When the first card arrived, wrote Dr. Crane, he decided to take it to the children's tuberculosis ward of his mission hospital. There, he strung the cutouts from a nail driven into one of the roughhewn beams of the wall. The decoration "was an instantaneous success," he reported. "The patients, all of them abandoned orphans and most of them under two years of age, were fascinated with the new toy as the nurses dangled it over the beds and cribs that fill the wood-floored ward . . . Now, with enough cards to string from one end of the room...
...smoking a pipe (as she did in real life), and she grows old becomingly. As Jackson, Charlton Heston is as dashing a figure in or out of politics as any moviegoer could wish. Only in the final scenes, when he ages, does he acquire the familiar shaggy, roughhewn look of Old Hickory...
...National Park give the feeling of the northwest's sprawling magnitude, of the raw, vast, lonesome land. And in the performances of Dewey Martin as the moody, savage Boone and Arthur Hunnicutt as the grizzled old fur trapper, The Big Sky captures some of the book's roughhewn poetry and its dark strain of violence...
Shortly starred in Ned Buntline's Wild West show, Bill Cody became a promoter's dream. Unlike his roughhewn pal, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Cody never "spat the liquid on the stage" in whisky-drinking acts, never barked, "Any damn fool would know that was cold tea." He usually muffed, but never scorned such lines as: "Fear not, fair maid; by heavens, you are safe at last with Buffalo Bill, who is ever ready to risk, life and die if need be in the defense of weak and helpless womanhood." Then he stood blushing on the stage, "handsome...