Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records is the first commercial use to which durium has been put, and so cheaply...
...contestants this year was: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic. Such poems...
...Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, proprietors of the big showrooms above Grand Central station, has hitherto specialized in the work of academicians like George de Forest Brush, Herbert Adams, Edwin Howland Blashfield. This year they invited the Downtown Gallery, protagonist of modernism, to arrange a show. The exhibits, totalling 132 paintings, water colors, drawings, prints, sculptures, filled seven of the eleven galleries, will remain until the middle of February. The exhibitors...
Bathroom Merger. On many Prophylactic toothbrushes has been spread toothpaste made by the Lambert Co. Likewise on many a Prophylactic shaving brush has been squeezed Lambert's shaving cream. And in many a medicine chest Prophylactic hairbrushes repose side by side with bottles of Lambert's Listerine and boxes of Lambert's throat tablets. Last week a merger was announced between Lambert Co. and Prophylactic Brush Co., on terms of one share of Lambert for two of Prophylactic. Although Lambert's $5,500,000 total assets are not double Pro-phy-lac-tic's $4,032,000, Lambert's high...
...Perdriat. Because Editor Donald Freeman had already discovered her to the readers of Vanity Fair, the show was patronized by an élite and knowing clientele. The event was significant, however, not because Alicia DuPont, Mrs. Amy Whitney, Mrs. T. W. Duke, Mrs. William Brush, Mrs. James Bartholomew and their like graced the occasion, but because it introduced to the U. S. the bizarre and beautiful artistry of a young and almost legendary French painter...