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Word: stencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Manhattan's most persistent exhibition-goer was a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and baggy trousers. Standing before a painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Though They Made Me a Criminal is little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Parisian flea market for two or three francs apiece. When the market for Millets ran low. they produced Monets, Sisleys, Pissarros. The forging of Millet paintings was greatly helped by the fact that old Jean null Millet was in the habit of signing his canvases with a copper stencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Greedy Grandson | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Died? Albert Blake Dick, 78, inventor of the mimeograph, chairman of the board of A. B. Dick Co.; of heart disease; in Lake Forest, Ill. He originated stencil printing, founded A. B. Dick Co., manufacturers of mimeographs and office equipment, 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1934 | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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