Word: spray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
...Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
...sake of the run home. By the time he was in high school, he could do ten miles easily, set out to increase his range. His four brothers contributed to buy him special steaks and chops. His trainer, Angus Macdonald, gave him violet rays, electric massages, cold spray baths, hydrotherapeutic and other scientific treatments. He secured the ideal job, pushing a wheelbarrow in a greenhouse, ran back & forth to work each day with a lunch box under his arm. This winter, in addition, he did a private marathon three times a week. To pass the time not spent in running...
...Spray foamed from the silver hull as it gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this...
...Anamosa, Iowa, site of Iowa's best known Reformatory. His family was rigidly Quaker. His first studio was a hiding place under the red checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period of Artist Wood's career-impressionist landscapes...