Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday in August 1932, Lawyer Timothy D. Hurley was sunning himself in his swimsuit on a public beach on the Michigan lakefront in Evanston. Lawyer Lynn A. Williams, one of several property holders whose beach joined the public sands, was passing out little printed cards inviting people to move off the private onto the public part of the beach. He had just handed cards to two pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking...
Nobody remembers his name but oldtime vacationers at Atlantic City, N. J. ("Playground of the World") say that the resort's first sand sculptor was a young artist who showed up on the beach one day in the 1890's and molded from a mountain of wet sand a lifelike figure of a scantily-clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers...
...promote interest, sand sculptors took to modeling topical subjects. Roosevelt I long reigned a favorite. Then came Woodrow Wilson, doughboys emerging from trenches, caricatures of the Kaiser, militant suffragets, airplanes, Lindbergh, Mickey Mouse. The more enterprising even reproduced old paintings like The Doctor and Washington Crossing the Delaware. Most subjects were done in bas-relief. Although whispering lovers and mermaids survived all passing fancies, religious figures were ruled out some 17 years ago when a colored life-size Crucifixion (green cross, brown Christ, vivid red thorns and nails) remained intact after a rainstorm and such throngs of the pious came...
Figures carved from wet sand are vulnerable to rain, wind and tide. Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week...
...common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...