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...patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...stiff, white strip of sticking plaster was stuck last week over a long gash extending from the forehead to the right eye of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
...letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might read "D7B3A6B4C2D8." A fast typer can compose a 3 x 2 in telegraving in ten minutes. The picture is "retouched" by reading its proof, correcting typographical errors. The finished block of type-dots is ready to print without further processing. ... Journalists on their...
...flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils; the puffy lower lip; even separate hairs of the beard are drawn out, and the hair, loosely combed off the forehead, would wave gently if blown on. Then move away and see how these fine distinctions disappear in the solidity and rotundity of the head marked boldly by only the most conspicuous and characteristic forms of the features. Notice too the great mass of the body to which the delicate sheen...