Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colors, for the physical endurance of the chemicals that compose them. Such a painter would say to the shopman who provides him with his materials: "The last indigo you sold me was vile. It will look like the devil in 500 years. Now I must have a chrome that will last a thousand; give me a wash that doomsday cannot crackE...
...have hitherto operated. Under the tutelage of Dillon, Read & Co., the industry is being reorganized as a single corporation, capitalized at roughly $50,000,000, and embracing eight constituent companies, chief among which are the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, the Maple Leaf Co. and the Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome Co., Ltd. The first of these above-named concerns produces a third of the Canadian output, or about 28% of the world output...
...nephew of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...
There were two compensations for lovers of brilliance and movement. First, the costumes: Anne Roselle, as Tosca, for instance, appeared in the first act in a chrome orange satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the Russian ballet divertissements which lent touches of exotic sprightliness at the conclusion of the evenings. The agonies of Tosca were thus relieved by Rimsky-Korsakov's sinuous Siamese Dance...