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Then his enemies conceived the brilliant idea of denouncing him for his intimacy with some of the scoundrels who launched the French Panama Canal swindle. The tar of that brush of infamy stuck sufficiently to cost him the votes which he needed to stay in the Chamber...
Henry Reuterdahl, whose paint brush earned him the rank of Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N., died last week in Washington. Most of his paintings are unsalable because they are plastered to public buildings or warships, but even were they salable there would be no fluttering of art dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played...
Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate...
...morning last week Albert, Duke of York, hunting with his brother Edward, Prince of Wales, spurred like a true royal Briton after the ruddy wisps of a bedraggled fox-brush...
...Blazer's other (normal) daughter she was described as follows: "She was utterly helpless. Her body was terribly twisted. She couldn't walk, couldn't feed herself and was not able even to brush a fly from her face. The noises she made were animal-like and frightened strangers. The sight of her eating was so revolting that I couldn't stand it to watch...