Word: boxwood
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...next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired at 49, Major Garey talks of his plans, sometimes dreamily with closed eyes, sometimes in dynamic barks. Says...
...normal effect in a woodcut is a white line on a black ground. To make black show against white, the boxwood must be cut away on either side of the line, a delicate operation. Wood-engravers' tools are a series of little chisels and gouges known for the marks they make as scorper, square scorper, graver, tint tool, multiple tool (eschewed by severe wood cutters 'as giving a pretty effect too easily) and spitzsticker. An amateur of wood engravings should be able to tell from the marks they leave just which tool was used on every part...
...Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres...
...Shoe Co., Manchester; J. F. McElwain Co. of Nashua, makers of Tom McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report [TIME...
...have founded an open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead...