Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures of vice to buttress the faith of Americanos ("I saw there what I never saw here-girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup and were obliged to make up again between courses!"); that have engaged "well-posted" young men to conduct Roach Straton to resorts whence might be drawn anathema upon modern dancing for a thoughtless, urbane congregation ("For surely, my friends...
Hilaire Germain Edgard Degas, long years ago, standing in front of one of Mary Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught...
...clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle Hélène," a highland peasant wench but lately come to Paris, had been...
...version of this pre-Christian manifesto prudently demands that before ordering his house painted the modern Roman must submit the color of his choice for approval by the municipal authorities. Flamboyant taste in paint will be sharply curbed according to despatches...
There are twenty-five miles of seats to be painted and the rows of seats all have backs. Numbers are stencilled on each seat, there being 75.238 numbers to be painted. In all 1170 gallons of paint will be used in the work...