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...slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough handling or sudden changes of temperature it is more liable to develop cracks than one all of whose constituents dry at the same speed...
...English language is a menagerie of words. Some of the words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull...
...Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...
...over Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner, should have at least a dash of the sharp subtlety of vinegar. Lacking this the other ingredients, though orthodox and not unpalatable, become somewhat spiritless. In this case they are a marital quarrel, a soupçon of extra-marital jealousy, a sudden but not surprising beautification of the wife, and, a bad last, the reconciliation which leaves her in charge of a quiescent situation...
...gulden, a crumpled scrap of paper on the table where Rasda had thrown it. Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like the music of incredibly swift and al, most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev are flashes of an ironic dangerous...