Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
...McCutcheon took a round-the-trip, bumped into the Spanish War, was with Dewey at Manila Bay, moved on to sketch the Boer War for the folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...
...regard to your article "No Wellesley Girls Here to Refute Billy Rose's 'Pretty Girls Don't Go to College' we were surprised to find a sketch of a Wellesley undergraduate misnamed "A Radcliffe Girl." We realize of course this is a typographical error...
...artist sniffs, sends Kitty off to an adjacent powder room to wash. Then he puts her in position (with suitable decolletage), cocks a critical eye, takes up an artistic stance, begins to sketch. It is only a matter of time before Kitty's portrait hangs with Gainsborough's Blue Boy at the Royal Academy, and she, a great London lady, drives the peerage half-mad with her charms...
There are other pleasant people in Three to Make Ready, notably expertly exuberant Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...