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Word: whittler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wooden hat blocks are old hat to the millinery industry. A designer fashions a new shape, a whittler carves it in wood, and then it is mechanically mass-produced. Felt is draped over it, steamed and pressed into its contours, and voil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Hat No More | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...WHITTLER ECHEWA (A Black) Instructor Special Education Center Grambling College Grambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even a modest metal mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Art: Turnings in the Wind | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...play by Graham Greene is a curiosity and a half. Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler. To the exclusion of all else, he works in his studio on a massive statue of God. Well, not quite all else. He takes time out to seduce his son's girl friend. Then the family doctor has a go at the boy's next girl, who happens to be a deaf-mute. She runs off and is killed. Despite head-scratching reviews, the play is running strong. It will in all likelihood make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: The Lights of London | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

WILLIE MAE WHITTLER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 1963 | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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