Word: charcoaling
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...service is held in a hall decorated with "a great many flowers and fir branches," and with a charcoal brazier at one end. Four girl attendants hold torches, four boys are trumpeters. Costume: uniform preferred, otherwise white shirt, dark trousers...
...Infrared rays are now used to dry damp sand molds for castings, cutting drying time and freeing labor needed by the torch and charcoal method...
...Hiler best as a bar and nightclub decorator (the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Manitou), as a cafe lounger with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. When nearly blind James Joyce could not see a drawing Hiler made of the writer's head, Hiler did another in thick charcoal which Joyce could follow with his fingers. Hiler also began to accumulate one of the world's best libraries on costume (he and Papa have produced a Bibliography of Costume compiled from some 8,000 books and periodicals...
...cemetery, after the Americans arrived, to be present at the first burial of American dead. . . . The cemetery is on the edge of the town. When we arrived, the graves were all dug and a number of the coffins had already been lowered, all the work being done by charcoal-black Senegalese. A French official arrived to ask if a French military representative would be welcome. He received an affirmative and shortly afterward several French officers arrived. While we were waiting for the last of the coffins to be lowered, we were introduced to the American officers, including the battery...
Typical is the situation with ersatz motor fuel. Most of the synthetic gasoline made from coal, plus the conquered Rumanian oil, has been invested in the Caucasus campaign for more oil. Meanwhile wartime traffic limps on carbon monoxide made in portable charcoal burners (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week a new ersatz fuel appeared in the news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply...