Word: draughtsman
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When Chrysler draughtsmen organized a Society of Designing Engineers, C. A. C. furnished a draughtsman-agent to join the union, report on its meetings. Twenty members were shortly discharged. Remaining members, a Society official testified last week, were so terrorized that they had stopped attending meetings, were mailing their dues...
...take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile plant in the country." Humorist Robert Benchley was represented with a wry piece on international conferences, the New York World-Telegram's Radio Editor Alton Cook sarcastically "exposed" Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour. Fred Cooper, star draughtsman of the late Life, did one of his oldtime two-page spreads on "Winter...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
Twanging, one-eyed Cartoonist Carey Cassius Orr left the Nashville Tennessean 19 years ago to join the Chicago Tribune as No. 2 cartoonist. First draughtsman of the Tribune then as now was John Tinney McCutcheon. Fortnight ago the Tribune again raided the Tennessean for an artist. It was announced that to the Chicago paper on Aug. 1 would go 30-year-old Joseph Parrish, whose work Cartoonist Orr and Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick had been quietly admiring. Packing up in Nashville, Democratic Cartoonist Joe Parrish drawled: "Now I reckon I'll have to learn how to draw Republican...
Lord Beaverbrook is a Canadian. His crack cartoonist is a New Zealander. who moved to Australia, finally graduated to the Mother Country. At his large draughtsman's table, where he puffs innumerable black cigars, he earns $50,000 yearly...