Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the postwar world, this detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...
...days later Winston Churchill lifted the lid in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister gave a thumbnail sketch of V-2 in action, said that "casualties and damage have so far not been heavy" and that "the scale and effect of these attacks have not hitherto been significant...
Charlie has supported Bergen most of his life. He began by putting Bergen through high school and almost through Northwestern University, and got him into Delta Upsilon. Charlie was whittled out 25 years ago by a Chicago barkeep named Mack (price: $35). He was modeled on a sketch Bergen made of a red headed Chicago newsboy. Bergen was then 16, the gawky, moody second son of a Swedish immigrant named Berggren who had run a retail dairy business in Chicago and a farm near Decatur, Mich...
...things are omitted from this sketch...
...down and drew his own version (based on that of Disney Cartoonist Kenneth O'Brien). From Bergen's final sketch, RKO Sculptor Joseph Zokoirch modeled Effie in plaster. The final wooden achievement is a full-fashioned ventrilowitch named for Bergen's senior script writer, Zeno Klinker...