Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Downs. With the dew still wet on the grass. Richards rolled through the English countryside last week in his little Morris runabout (he left his Rolls Royce and his chauffeur at home). Usually, with his 112-lb. body wrapped in Bond Street tweeds, wealthy Jockey Richards looks like a well-dressed ex-fullback, seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Last week he went out in flannel shirt and whipcord breeches. The runabout pulled up before a rambling old brick stable. There Richards mounted a delicately built, undersized brown colt named Tudor Minstrel...
...afternoon of the fifth day, when two power-company linemen found him, he simply lay still and said, "Hello." They lifted the car off his mangled hand, wrapped him in their coats, dipped a canvas bucket into the creek and put its rough, wet edge to his lips. At the hospital in Oakland a doctor said he believed that the hand would not have to be amputated-just some fingers...
Boston-Cleveland, postponed, wet grounds...
...renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...
...that he has learned to look at nature as if it were a "wet painting," Artist Sterne believes his best work lies ahead. He confesses he cannot see nature as art whenever he chooses: "I wish I could, but it just happens at moments. I try to catch those moments in my painting, as fast as I can. The old masters built paintings bit by bit, like houses. When they were finished building they knew it. Now I say the thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire...