Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering head by Sculptor Jo Davidson ; near him, in the twilight, H. P. Davison, a banker no less famed, gazed with measured glance out of the paint of Sir William Orpen. For its economy of drawing, its matchlessly skilful blend of rich sombre hues, this portrait was undoubtedly the masterpiece of the exhibition. Sir William was also represented by his portrait of Mr. Goadby Loew, a lean, commanding gentleman folding wiry arms over a double-breasted blue...
Great writers have sometimes sought to paint the underworld. Not the most daring among them put upon canvas scenes more revolting or more despicable in the cold-blooded and sordid vices they display than several which the evidence in this case has depicted. The cynicism of most of the characters in the drama provokes laughter, but it is laughter of amazement and of scorn. There is something ludicrous in this naked parade of greed and of obscenity; and the predominant impression it leaves in minds not squeamish over common frailties is that of unmitigated repugnance and disgust...
...student who had enjoyed the college education turned out to be a genius, with a scheme for a new form of paint drier. If he could finance his invention, all concerned could become rich:-- wherefore the idea for a new kind of business, the American Promoting Company, whose aim it was to finance indigent men of genius...
...This possibility had already been demonstrated by four Houston Texans (TIME, Aug. 25), who played a full 18-hole round with the aid of luminous paint on their balls, searchlights on tees and greens...