Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better clean, sea-breezy paintings of clambakes, sailing ships, ocean. In getting off-shore glitter, cool sky and the white spots of human figures into the right places on canvas, Artist Etnier's new paintings proved him a pleasurable if not a very powerful sea-scapist. Best picture: Rough Crossing, looking down as if from a masthead on a fisherman's launch in a choppy...
...Portrait (see cut) was not only an honest and successful job but the likeness of a more mature if not a more professorial artist. And thepossibility that Curry critics might soon have to shake their heads up & down instead of from side to side was evident in a few rough sketches for the murals he has been commissioned to paint for the Kansas State Capitol at Topeka...
Constance Cummings, a handsome, vigorous young woman, seems to enjoy the male impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with...
...level ground and building boards around it counterbalance the advantages of a rink, even during a fairly warm winter. For there are a great many days each year when there is no skating on the Charles, while a rink would be crowded. Here, if snow were scraped off and rough ice were flooded, one cold night would produce good ice even if it thawed somewhat the next...
...Rough outdoor ice and the absence of side boards hampered play until the final frame when the visiting offensive finally began to click. Curtiss netted a pass from Gray in 3:36 and Fuller tied the score on a solo dash by slipping a hard shot past goalie Hanford...