Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio in Fordingbridge, 75 miles from London, looked oddly unlike the workshop of a great painter. Instead of easel and brushes, a wheelbarrow full of clay stood in the center of the room, the wooden kitchen table was littered with well-used sculptor's tools, and finished and unfinished busts rested on pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor...
...plaster death mask was taken soon after the royal person died. Sometimes the mask was painted in lifelike colors; sometimes carvers made a faithful wooden copy. A rough body of straw or wood clothed in robes of state was added...
...Liga (Champ Butler; Columbia). A spirited hillbilly song about a cigar-store Indian who hides his longings beneath a wooden exterior. In the back ground, a quartet grunts...
...local bullfighting aficionados erupted last night over the size and shape of the muleta. John M. Steadman 1L, former chairman of the Yale Daily News, and Caldwell Titcomb '47, former 5G, took issue in letters to the CRIMSON with Lawrence Wilde '53, who had claimed a mullets was the wooden prop used by the hero to support his cape...
Titcomb agreed with Stead man, but added that the serge might be fiannel instead, and is folded over the wooden stick of Wilde...