Word: cameo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...
Players are often baffled by the allusions that Neville Cardus, who usually lugs a good book along to the cricket field, chips into his cameo-chiseled reports on Britain's national game. Slight, myopic Cardus is probably the world's only cricket critic who also doubles in brass and woodwinds as a music reviewer. For 30 years, in covering his "strange dichotomy," first for the Guardian and now for the Kemsley newspapers (the Sunday Times, the Sunday Chronicle), Cardus has played a deft prose symphony of his own that weaves through both his fields the tonal majesty...
...admired object was the Portland Vase, a ten-inch-high urn of deep blue glass, decorated with white cameo figures of Peleus and Thetis. According to common, if unproved, legend, it was supposed to have come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed...
Saint-Gaudens had gone to work at twelve as an apprentice cameo-cutter, and early acquired the habit of taking infinite pains with details. He spent 14 years on the Shaw Memorial (see cut) and he modeled 40 Negro heads for it before deciding on the 16 he finally used. Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams' New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens' talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him just the man, Adams thought, to create a memorial for Mrs. Adams' tomb...
...oval gold snuffbox with a cameo sea scene on its lid, framed by 50 large diamonds...