Word: painting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paint...
Some of the lower panes in the windows of the gymnasium shower bath room are now almost entirely devoid of white paint to obstruct the view...
...exhibition of the Paint and Clay Club of Boston was opened night before last...
...were getting ready our war paint and buckling on our armor, when we began asking each other what it was all about, and why Dr. McCosh couldn't have eaten his dinner in peace as the boys do in the old refectory - if that blessed old refectory is still in the land of the living, and then we turned one to another and said: "None of us ever heard of Edwards stamping his iron heel. In our days we could hardly hear the patter of Dr. McLean's gum shoes...
...have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have something on which to base your ideas; you must have before you a real fact or passion which you may idealize...