Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the men working on Massachusetts Hall tore the outer boards off the framework of the door on the north side, a small pencil sketch of a gentleman dressed in colonial clothes was seen among the other ancient scrawls. Above the drawing was the inscription. "Bedamn, Ben", Archacologists of the University are puzzled regarding the exact meaning of "Bedamn", but as the picture portrays a somewhat portly gentleman, they deduce that "Ben" probably refers to Benjamin Franklin, and that the drawing was a tribute to him by one of his more ardent admirers...
...fact is that no woman has ever produced an immortal picture; also that a number of women in every century have produced very creditable ones. Penelope of Mytelene won fame with her character sketch of Theodosius, the Juggler. Pliny praised the paintings of Eirene. In Bruges, when the Van Eycks were teaching the world how to paint in oils, Margaretha, their sister, worked as their equal. Even in 17th Century France, age of the precieuse in living and painting, there were a number of women adept in the academic art of the period. A few years ago, Rosa Bonheur painted...
Cartoonists pillory their victims more cruelly, and at a greater risk of libel, than the most unscrupulous of picture editors. Last November, TIME reproduced a damning pen sketch of W. E. D. Stokes, Manhattan realtor, done by Artist Marsh of the Daily News at the time of Mr. Stokes' divorce suit...
This is a sketch of the reasons which inspire the Japanese Foreign Office to obtain from Russia the northern half of the island known as Sakhalin and Karafuto. And in return for such apparent magnanimity, Japan is willing to cancel Russia's political debt* to her and joyfully accord her de jure recognition...
...residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped through four bathtubs." He fought it all; but the goading sense of his new-rich family's vulgarity, he, being made of finer stuff, could not quite down...