Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell lived at 171 Marlborough Street. After a long residence in the wilds of Cambridge Province he has at last returned to the metropolis; to the same house, in fact. Through the best domestic intelligence we learn that every book, every bridge-lamp, every objet d'art and ash tray is in the exact same spot, facing the very same way as during the reign of President Eliot. Maybe this homecoming was in President Lowell's mind when, in 1909, he had large photographs made of every room and every corner. By means of these pictures, probably similar to those...
...gloomy pergola rising to meet the rungs of blackened fire escapes which hang from the buildings like the foliage of a fantastic iron jungle. No. 63 Allen Street, near the corner of Grand, is a large green-painted wooden door with a rusty lock and bar. Above some ash cans floats a white hand in eerie benediction. Beneath the hand is painted: E. A. RIDLEY, Sub-Basement...
...Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...
...57th Street where the Ferargil Galleries held an elaborate cat show. Following a showing of cats in art at the little Maurel Gallery year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita, and a superb cat poster by the late great Théophile Steinlen...
...flower casting the mold preparation is brushed on the flower coat by delicate coat, the mold toasted and the flower ash cleaned out with hot mercury as usual...