Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker Thurber is known as Old Thurber. He pooh-poohs the tendency of art critics to breathe his name with that of Matisse and Picasso. But his drawings have long been taken seriously by advanced students of fantasy, and one sketch of a lady's alcoholic visions was hung (under the heading of Miracles and Anomalies) at the outstanding Fantastic Art-Dada-Surrealism show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Old Thurber, anything but pompous, once described himself as follows...
...wish I had space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in the year just past-to merge their fresh-to-TIME but long experience talents with those of our 46 other editors. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are adding to TIME'S staff in these days when the news is so hard to get and check and make clear...
...observer sketches with a black pencil on a map printed in red. The transmitter, which is insensitive to red, sends only the black marks; consequently, if an enemy receiver intercepts the message, it shows only meaningless scrawls. But at headquarters the message is decoded by placing the transmitted sketch over a map duplicating the observer...
...Dark Eyes", which opened last night at the Plymouth, is a mixture of occasional humor and bad taste. Funny in parts, the show falls through the bottom when it attempts to sketch human beings. It is excellent only with wooden butlers...
Sirs: The artist's sketch of the Senate in the background of the Senator George cover (TIME, July 19) must have reminded others as it did me . . . [that] when we were kids in school we had to listen to what the teacher was saying. We couldn't read or sleep. Maybe we had to listen because our minds were growing and capable of learning...