Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates to the Democratic Party's 28th National Convention had to judge for themselves: unexplained mysteries were the rule in Chicago. On a wall of the Convention's vast (21,000 seats) Chicago Stadium, a huge picture of a donkey was replaced by a spotlighted, grisly sketch of Franklin Roosevelt. Assiduously distributed were 500,000 campaign buttons, adorned not by a donkey but by a bright red cock-o'-the-walk and the legend: "Just Roosevelt...
...folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed chair which is disconcertingly set on a dais to keep him from dropping paint on the oyster-white carpet. In the groove, he can turn out a sketch in 20 minutes. Dresses like those in Susan and God cost M. G. M. between $150 and $350 apiece, but when Adrian spits on his hands and lets go in a costume piece, his creations may cost the studio as much as $4,000 to execute. Somewhat frustrated by having...
...Daily Express, Daily Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, News Chronicle, Daily Sketch, Daily Tele graph & Morning Post, the Times, Daily Worker...
...resurrection. Indirectly suggesting that the end of the second age, of the human world, is at hand, he recalls that Christ compared such catastrophes to the first leaves of a fig tree, by which men know that summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort may perhaps be pardoned. But he who finds in it mere idiocy may perhaps be mistaken...
Further gifts of a silver inkstand to Miss E. N. Emery secretary of the House, a sketch of the portrart to Mrs. Coolidge, and a silver chronometer to Professor Coolidge were also made at the dinner...