Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the first time that the interior of the gymnasium has been renovated in over twenty years. In fact, so much white paint and varnish have been lavished on the building, that its interior is hardly recognizable...
...above all this applies to college films. Almost without exception, college movies have conspired to paint college as a grotesque. College is just one great big democracy where all the little boys and girls run track every afternoon or get well sneered at, and deservedly, too. The caption writers on college films, with the exception of Yale's Greatest American Wisecracker, Donald Ogden Stewart, are as smug and healthy as Lifebuoy. Clean, upstanding, virile, they preach the doctrine of mens sana in corpore sano, and in so many words, too. And they are as humorless as they are smug...
...many American artists paint portraits that are portraits of a New Yorker, but not of the human being...
...much, and what he saw was good. Last week he conveyed to the Queen whose sovereignty he escaped by "Americanization" a memento of esteem-a stained glass window for the Nieuwe Kirk at Delft. By Mr. Bok's command Dutch Artist W. A. von Konynemburg will paint Her Majesty upon glass "in various symbolic attitudes, as the embodiment of all the cardinal virtues...
...There was not much to say about technique, for over all the able and even powerful work of Mr. Inness Jr. is the shadow of the man who signed his pictures "Inness." "My first memory of my father," George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor...