Word: paint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about Mr. Lincoln was that when he was a boy he had a toy theatre. Did you have a toy theatre? Did you paint the scenery and write the plays? Well, I did; and, like Mr. Lincoln, I kept it up until I was ashamed to have people know I played with such toys. However, Mr. Lincoln has little time for hobbies these days, with the possible exception of golf. He works sincerely...
...Clement took a trip to Rutland and found the old warrior, well worn and shabby, in an abandoned barn. He had it shipped to Cambridge by express and handed him over to a painter who spruced it up and put on some fresh war paint...
...Thomas Cusack, a youth in his teens, started a business with only a paint pot and brush and a remarkable personality as assets. The business consisted in painting advertising signs on the sides of buildings in a small way. Gradually, he took to building billboards of his own, and leasing suitable walls and other locations for outdoor advertisements...
Familiar institutions have brightened up somewhat, J. August Inc. with a new coat of paint, and James W. Brine Company with a big stock of football material with which it has been ministering to the needs of early football arrivals for the last few weeks...
...from the land of grease paint, mystery and hokum bursts George M. with a weekly humorous letter for the Sunday News. Think of it! The fellow who press-agented Betsy Ross's Grand Old Rag is going to toot a real Yankee Doodle letter for you every Sunday...