Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing showed a street scene jammed with looters, a mother trying to escape with her baby over prone bodies, a half-naked woman who has torn off her blouse to prevent herself from being scorched, a horseman riding roughshod over...
...back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
Congratulations on the fine example of TIME'S good journalism in the sketch of the late Conde Nast [TIME, Sept...
Captain G. N. Barker, U.S.N., commanding officer of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard University. A biological sketch about him . . . appears on the inside section of this issue of The Scuttlebutt. --Caption from The Scuttlebutt...
This is World War II's best book to date about U.S. Army life. It is a realistic, informative, good-natured sketch of what life in camp is really like, written with a certain cub-like charm. It approaches Army life with just the right touch of hard-boiled banter to take the sting out of it. If a book can build morale, this should...