Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club, famed hangout of U.S. meatpacking executives, got a notable gift last week. The gift: the 1½ by 3 ft. original sketch of Rosa Bonheur's nobly galumphing Horse Fair. The donor: doggy Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, niece of John D. Rockefeller...
...military weathermen in Britain sketch a current map and in Washington, an International Business Machine shuffles through the old maps every day, digs out analogous weather conditions. Forecasters see what happened next under the same conditions, make their forecasts on the premise that like conditions produce like results...
...tall, slim, 26-year-old Captain Charlton, onetime London Daily Sketch-man, Monty gave free rein and backed him up when the War Office was howling for the suppression of the paper, and even Winston Churchill was making known his disapproval...
...artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke in the form of an original poem, pencil sketch, oil painting, and on occasion, a stage...
...first thing that fascinated her about the ballet was the fierce contrast between the blazing light on the stage and the darkness in the flies and backstage. Often she sketched by a dim green light, sometimes she could not see what she was drawing at all. Between scenes she would dash up to the dressing rooms, sketch away furiously while the ballerinas changed costumes. One of her great disappointments is that she never got into the men's dressing room...