Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey white against black backgrounds often gives a frightening effect to his portrayals. This is especially true in "The Dance of Death," a sketch which shows men in grotesque poses caught by wire entanglements. Here this use of white brings out the details of bleached skulls and bones with all the contortions of agony...
...methods or we will change the Government!" On the spot in which Pierre Laval now found himself only a great master of the ambiguous could save the day. The Auvergnat is precisely that. He was first elected to the Chamber as a rabid Socialist. In a witty vaudeville sketch now convulsing Paris the actor playing M. Laval says of those early days: "I was never a Socialist; only the people who voted for me were." Today the Auvergnat is considered at heart a Fascist. For six months he has been ruling France by decrees which are those of a Dictator...
...tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams. He listened to our daily discussions with a politely scornful indulgence. . . . Looking...
...happy day soon came when Leslie's Weekly paid him $40 for a pen & ink sketch. Shortly thereafter the U. S. S. Maine went down in Havana harbor and Publisher Hearst's war with Spain was on. At a contracted salary of $200 per week from Leslie's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine, 25-year-old Howard Chandler Christy sailed for Cuba on the same transport with Col. Leonard Wood, Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. The 400 drawings he sent back from the front are possibly Christy's best work to date...
...India lies in its 406 photographs, covering typical Indian scenes that range from broad panoramas of the Himalayas to pictures of street fighting, of obscene idols, of corpses being burned beside the Ganges. Katherine Mayo supplies a text to accompany these views in a brief, anti-Hindu, over-simplified sketch of Indian history from the Muslim invasion of 999 A. D. to the trials of Mahatma Gandhi in 1935. Readers who do not share her passionate hatred of Hindu ways are likely to remain unimpressed by her purple prose, her tirades against native terrorists and agitators. Holding that "terrorism...