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...that moment the loud approaching sound of a motorcar was heard in the drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush...
Then, as he wrote in Amid These Storms (1932): ". . . The next step was to begin. But what a step to take! The palette gleamed with beads of color; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air. My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. But after all the sky on this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about...
...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
...Record. In Seattle, Chief Petty Officer T. Kelly, home at last from the South Pacific, leaned a ladder against a monument to the war dead, climbed to his own name, with a paint brush set the record straight...
...Today's troops may awake to the blast of a bugle molded completely of plastic, brush their teeth with paste from a plastic tube, drink from a plastic canteen. In testing plastics for canteens, the Army Quartermaster Corps set higher standards than previous materials could meet. Tests include freezing the canteen while 90% full of water, dropping it ten feet onto concrete, tasting and smelling distilled water kept in the canteen 24 hours at tropic heat...