Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 on a rainy day. Very difficult; the wood is sodden and you are down on your knees in the wet, blowing from above and from below. Suddenly the white flame blazes up and there it is. If you rearranged things you might ruin...
What is an "educated man?" At the centennial of New York's City College last week, a British civil servant raised the familiar question and hazarded an unfamiliar answer. Sidney Herbert Wood, 63, retiring principal assistant secretary of the Ministry of Education, thought there were three "acid tests...
...Harcourt Wood went all the way for Winthrop, yielding two runs in the fifth inning and one in the eight. Dunster's relief hurler, George Okamura, nearly succeeded in salvaging his cause with a two-run homer in the fifth, but the puritans' early lead proved sufficient for their victory...
Yesterday's Linoups: Winthrop-ss, Nicholson; 3b, Koye; c, Mosely; of, Howe; 1b, Gray; rf, Ways; 2b, Coolidge; 1f Gardner; p, Wood. Dunster-2b, Aldrich; ef, Weeks; 1b, Harney; 1f, Peterson; rf, Thompson; ss, Gulney; 3b, Alport; c; Jackson; p, Easton, Okamura...
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill said: "I am an ordinary man who refuses to be bamboozled." But Eric Gill, born in 1882 as the second of a poor nonconformist minister's 13 children, was far from ordinary. One of England's top sculptors and wood carvers, he was also a Christian whose religious simplicity led him to beat a hasty and disgusted retreat from the great names of the art world...