Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
While the President was thus expressing his faith in the Constitution its sesquicentennial was also observed by the University of Michigan Press by the publication of a hitherto unprinted autobiographical sketch and a letter by the figure in U. S. history who was one of the Constitution's most vigorous interpreters: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U. S. from 1801 to 1835. Written in 1827 to furnish data about his life to Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years...
...Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
Among watercolors promised for the present show was an exuberant sketch of Old Friends Hemingway and Max Eastman in their recent bosom-baring scuffle (TIME, Aug. 23). At the last minute Painter Peirce changed his mind, dropped The Foibles of Fisticuffs from his list. On view this week, however, are new paintings of circuses and county fairs, bright canvases done at Key West, two views of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations at Cambridge last year, charming paintings of the children. Critics detected a deepening in his work, belying one of the numerous Peirce ballads which runs...