Word: brushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congressman Velde, by subpoening Truman without consulting his own committee, even bypasses the check which the Un-American Activities Committee had placed on his subpoena power after his brush with the clergy last spring. If he sees nothing graver in Velde's actions than embarrassment to his own party, Eisenhower should use his Congressional influence to get Velde replaced as Chairman of this committee...
...could still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits...
...subversive." "Certain other" committees, Gallagher added, "do not have full regard for the truth and hide the subversive effect of their own unsubstantiated attacks on education and religious freedom." But this is no reason, said Gallagher, for harassed educators to tar Jenner's committee with the dirty brush used to counterattack Joe McCarthy. He concluded: "Where we find honesty and integrity coupled with high principles and sound operations, with an absence of headline-seeking and a genuine desire to strengthen free institutions...
...brush in Vag's hand whipped over his glistening shoes in offbeat rhythm to the tune he was whistling. It was "Over There," with many martial trills and cadenzas. ". . .And we won't come back tum de tum tum over there," he finished with a satisfied flick of a shoe cloth...
...painter and went into the meat business, Samuel Slotkin, 68, has thought of his Hygrade Food Products Corp. as a work of art. "I am not grubbing for money," he says. "I am painting a picture as a life work. Every day I put in a brush stroke or two." Last week Slotkin added the boldest stroke of all to his canvas. Into Hygrade (1952 sales: $137 million) he merged Indianapolis' Kingan & Co. (sales: $214 million), thus became the fifth largest U.S. meatpacker...