Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
Back East, he sold his first sketch, Indian Scouts on Geronimo's Trail, to Harper's Weekly for $10. In the next 23 years he produced more than 2,000 pictures, some 15 sculptures (in bronze), illustrated 73 books (13 of them his own travels...
...rosily healthy, haven't had even a cold in three years. They still study under private governesses (nuns) in their 19-room, nine-bath Callander, Ont. mansion, have about average intelligence. Their accomplishments: they peck out a fair tune on their three pianos, chirp a pleasing soprano, and sketch a promising freehand...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...