Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Glasgow, pride of the South, is a good stylist, competent, prolific, weakly satiric, with a high artistic reputation and more than a trace of sentiment...
...wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great George Bellows. As he taught he learned, particularly from conversation with such friends as his colleagues...
...Time out!" Gentlemen! Life subscriptions, indeed! to make TIME smug and fat, complacent and self-satisfied. Already is there the trace of complaisance, of self-satisfaction, in its columns as indicated verily by this discussion...
...were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo, odds: 33 to 1. They too were proved wise. Trigo...
...that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...