Word: buckram
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...books purchased abroad, these are bound in the country from which they are purchased, in the case of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These foreign books are usually bound in leather, Within the last fifteen years leather has been replaced in the binding of books in America by buckram cloth, a library cloth in various colors, which is exceptionally long-wearing, and must come up to government standards, maintained by yearly tests...
...green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...
...small brown face screwed into a mask of naive anticipation. Nobody else moved. Behind him the burgesses of Salzburg listened respectfully; his Abbot sat upon his right; in front of him his four sturdy bastards awaited God's next word in a glitter of green and silver buckram. That was in the year . . . Nothing much had changed. Once more sunset powdered with golden dust the Cathedral Square of Salzburg; once more the monks looked down from their barred windows; once more, on a bare plank stage, God, the Father, in false hair delivered the speech that begins "the morall...
They will be bound in hand made green Fabriano covers with. Buckram backs, printed on Arche's hand made paper, and boxed. With each copy will go an etching of Professor Copeland done especially for this edition by D. C. Sturges, who made the etching of C. W. Eliot '53, President of the University, emeritus. When Professor Copeland was asked what artist he preferred for the work, he particularly chose Mr. Sturges, because of his ad- miration for his etching of President Eliot...
...Kensington's Yesterday," Miss Barbey has written a story, charming because of its air of starched lawns and embroidered silks, mahogany treads, and flower borders. The style echoes the tone quite beautifully--in all but the last sentence. The last sentence should be brocaded; instead it is backed with buckram...