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...Inness put his foot through it. Officials from a museum admired a summer evening. Inness smeared his thumb in yellow, pushed it across the moon. "Stay there," he said, "until I make you white. . . ." He painted a few draped figures. Nudes, with the controlling necessity for form, were a tax upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif...
Forty thousand garment workers entered upon the third week of thumb-twiddling. They demand a 40-hour week, a guarantee of 36 weeks' work every year, limitation of the number of jobbers and the registration of contracts with the union. Neither the jobbers nor the union will accept the report of Governor Smith's commission. The impasse is complete...
...spite of the conciliation efforts of the Slavic Committee on Conciliation and the Citizens Committee, Passaic thumb-twiddlers likewise had the day. Textile strikers entered upon their 27th week of strike...
...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
...mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase, and paralysing a thumb by making three copies of a serial at once. . . . Notices mentioned that Louisa May Alcott was a type of the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood...