Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...melts the color into it. To a large extent she makes her portraits by taking casts of a clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with a hot tool. She has been especially successful in portraits of infants and small children where the delicacy of the flesh and coloring is beautifully rendered in the soft translucency...
British Communists, at a Party meeting in Manchester, condemned the Labor Government for its "faithlessness and treachery to the working class," declared that it was the "willing tool and accomplice of the capitalist exploiters...
They are to be congratulated on their perseverance. A reading knowledge of a language is a valuable tool in any man's kit--in days of internationalism an essential one. The acquiring of an "elementary" knowledge is an interesting experience. And the necessity of fulfilling the requirements against time is no doubt good for the soul. Especially salubrious is the discipline following failure to comply. A man in good standing at the beginning of his third year might congratulate himself too enthusiastically. If he faces probation for other causes he vails his stomach--and his neighbors prosper. Nor can there...
Morris Gest, producer of The Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...
...alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda...