Word: paint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flemings, however, far from being satisfied, are still irked by several important Walloon "islands"' within Flemish territory. Last year a gang of Flemish patriots invaded one island-Enghien-and started to paint out French signs. They were driven off by Walloons who threw pails of water at them. Most notable island, however, is Brussels, the capital, once a Flemish city but now French. The Flemings now threaten to "retake" Brussels and flamandize...
With such recent productions as the uncut Hamlet and Welles's Julius Caesar, the theatre has applied grease paint to Shakespeare instead of embalming fluid. But this time Welles has gone too far. He may yet rake in the chips, but to get Five Kings he had to deal with the deuces wild...
...Such new products as Goodyear's Pliofilm and Goodrich's Koroseal are beginning to threaten Cellophane as packaging material. From rubber conveyor belts (Grand Coulee Dam has one 10,000 ft. long), the industry expects to make millions. Other developments: acid-resisting tanks, sun-resisting paint...
...Milwaukee, who declined to discuss Eugene Buerk. "He is not coming back-he cannot talk," explained a companion. An ornamental iron worker from Chicago paid all his own fare so that he would be free to return if Nazi Germany is not so rosy as letter-writing relatives paint...
...once decided to paint Kiki, Queen of the Paris models, favorite of Artists Pascin, Kisling, Soutine. After meticulously arranging her pose and drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...