Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life of Christ. Beyond this it is a picaresque skeleton clothed with the abundant flesh of Author Golding...
...barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive, and means well. To paint another man in such broad, flat colors would be to paint him out; but it is from the spaciousness of Mr. Baldwin's qualities that he draws his surprising strength...
...Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous...
Coupe-4-cyl. FORD CHEVROLET 52 CHRYSLER WHIPPET STAR STAR $550 $625 $870 $755 steel Fisher Hayes-Hunt steel pyroxylin Duco Duco paint steel spoke steel disc wood wood 4 2 2 4 balloon balloon balloon balloon 104" 103" 106" 101 H" Triplex plate plate plate hydraulic none none Gabriel...
...acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...