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...canvases. Mr. Sargent was careful not only in his artistic technique but also in mixing his oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly...
...finds the curtain to be practically an airplane map of Cambridge. There is Massachusetts Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...
...Words of apology fail me for having sunk His Majesty's submarine N. 6. My subordinates are killed by my fault, but it is with pride that I inform you that the crew to a man have discharged their duties as sailors and with the utmost coolness until their dying moments...
PATRICK J. WARD Director Bureau of Publicity & Information N. C. W. C. Washington, D. C. The Rev. John J. Burke's letter to the Living Church: The editorial of your [Living Church] issue for Nov. 5 declares: "We are not among those who delight in finding fault with Roman Catholicism." The editorial itself with belies that statement. . . . . The reason for this editorial is a business card which has come to your attention.* If it is not your delight to find fault with Roman Catholicism, why did you not take pains to find out if there was any such official...
...prosecution, led by vindictive Senator Reed of Missouri, retorted that the credentials had already been voided by the Senate's investigation last winter; that the culprits had "had their day in court" with the Senate's investigators. If they had not, that was the fault of rich Mr. Vare's colleague, the other Senator Reed, who "hamstrung" the investigating committee by a filibuster...