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...spring. It was still spring late in the afternoon after the sunlight grew even paler and a slightly ribald wind swung in from the sea. The waves piled in on the tide, foamy against the rocks. She walked over the gray-green downs to the bluff. One by one the lobster men putted in toward the harbor in a single snaky line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through...
...specially developed sand paint prevents reflection of sunlight from windows (which would catch the eye of an enemy aviator), but permits light to pass through them. The paint jobs are executed by C. & T. Painters, Ltd., who have circulated a handsome brochure with "before and after" color photographs. The price: around 18? per square yard of masquerade (but the British Government foots half the bill...
Like his friend, Louis Adamic, "Maxo" Vanka has a love of poor people and a tireless zeal in studying them. Among his sepia drawings were two that made many a visitor gulp with humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom...
...Japanese master carpenters knew more about architecture in wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...
...central lounge he designed and mainly executed himself. Their subject is the submerged continents of Mu and Atlantis in the green depths of the sea. Swimming and floating everywhere are large, brilliantly colored fish, mythical sea creatures, and tremendously enlarged microorganisms symbolizing the oceanic origin of life. Shafts of sunlight falling through the water work sea changes of color...