Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these, able Manhattan cartoonist Ralph Barton filmed with his tiny camera. To newspapermen he said: "I do not have to ask my victim to pose for hours while I sketch him or her. I just shoot a few dozen feet of film and have my prey at my mercy forever after...
Georges Clemenceau (Nov. 16, 1917, to Jan. 17, 1920), 85, most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...
...must raise a finger of score at those who dislike the sketch of the new chapel. They certainly do not know their architecture. And if anything will ever penetrate the heavens in search of a just creator the steeple on the new chapel certainly will. It will be one more point of interest beside the glass flowers...
...cause the student to think quickly and accurately, and to focus his imagination, for problems in design he is required to furnish preliminary sketches. These are but 12 hours in length and must embrace the general solution for the problem. During the sketch no documentary aid or aid from instructors is allowed or given, so that the student is placed entirely upon his own resources. If he makes an error, it will go hard with him, since he is not permitted to depart from his sketch solution during the rest of the time alotted him for preparation of the final...
Strike Quips. The London Sketch opened a contest last week to discover "the wildest strike rumor." A cheerful Ananias promptly submitted the following: "I heard during the strike that the King and Queen had fled to the U. S. after abdicating in favor of the Prince of Wales, who was then said to have been assassinated...