Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allen put out their second book, More Merry-Go-Round, which contained, among other things, the statements that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author of the Mills piece, to use the material. Later he sent Smith a check...
...plane designers and engine builders expected a pat on the back from the Army Air Corps for their performance as of 1939, they were disappointed last week when Major General Henry H. Arnold, baldish Chief of Air Corps, sat down before the House Military Affairs Committee to sketch the needs of the nation's air defenses...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
Slender, dark, bustling Isabel Bishop, 36, has her studio at Broadway and 17th Street, hard by Union Square. Such paintings as Office Girls begin with a fast sketch done on the street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...
...enclose a sketch of Donald's nephews as they very nearly appeared on the screen...