Word: underbrush
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Dali emerged from the underbrush of ten-dollar words long enough to sneer knowingly at his contemporaries. "Modern artists are afraid because of their lack of technique," he said, "to face up to the dazzling perfection of the Renaissance . . . The Holy Mother of God is more important than a fruit bowl and a knife...
...alltime low of 70 last season, was going to shrink further still. The modest wartime boom was really over, but high production costs remained. Producers looked in vain for the freehanded angels who had gone with the boom. Reported Variety last week: "Nearly all [producers] have to ... flail the underbrush for money...
Artist Dean Fausett had painted a creditable landscape of hills, trees and varicolored underbrush. The health message, tacked on by Upjohn: BREEDING PLACES FOR SNEEZES-WHEEZES. Earl Kerkam had painted a lugubrious gentleman, tired and mistrustful. Upjohn had labeled it, HAVE YOU LEARNED TO LIVE WTH A STOMACH ULCER? A painting by Alexander James was captioned SKIN TROUBLE IN MEN AND WOMEN. Fletcher Martin's painting of a lovely, pearly-skinned girl was titled ANEMIA...
...jack rabbits, they surround a group, driving them in an ever-narrowing circle, just as men do. Hunting ducks, a coyote once drove the feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take refuge in a wagon or a moving flatcar...
...town of Freedom (pop. 250) lies in a darkly wooded valley in Owen County, Indiana. The country around it is mostly "hills, hollers and underbrush." That's the way Miss Edith Madden, the telephone switchboard operator, describes it. Freedom is a farming town, more than 100 years old, and is connected with the world by State Highway...