Word: caspar
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First important glassmaker in U. S. history was Caspar Wistar who opened a factory in 1739 in Salem County, N. J. His specialty was two-color work, generally of little depth, but he succeeded in producing a quantity of whiskey bottles now avidly sought by collectors as South Jersey glass. Most famed U. S. glassmaker was Henry William ("Baron") Stiegel who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765, lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...
William R. W. Kohler, Kuno Francke professor of German Art and Culture, will give the fifth of his lecture series on "Masterpieces of German Art" this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Germanic Museum. His subject will be Caspar David Friedrich, German nineteenth century painter. All Professor Kohler's remaining lectures will be concerned primarily with nineteenth century...
...begins with a burial service for the hero, a director's stunt devised not only to rob the audience of its just reward but to rehabilitate and glorify the old-time cut back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera...
When the late Louisiana Collector Caspar Cusachs died, his heirs found Marie Leveau in his collection, sold the portrait to New Orleans Stockbroker Simon J. Shwartz. In 1926 he smilingly turned down an offer of $5,000. Hit by Depression, he later offered Queen Marie for $1,000, found no takers. Last week the Louisiana Historical Society bought the portrait for $126, to hang in the Society's collection in the Cabildo on Jackson Square. Through New Orleans, where "Marie Leveau charms" are still sold by obscure druggists and necromancers, rose last week a babble of amazing tales about...