Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting his pixie face, dressing himself in outlandish costumes. There exist striking self-portraits of Billy Orps in a succession of funny hats, in racing silks as a jockey, as a major in his muffler and trench helmet, as a wildfowler, as a painter with...
...London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned a steam yacht before he was interested in sailing. He first challenged for the America...
Whelk, Trifling incidents make comedy at such serious gatherings. Professor Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt...
Depression had its effect on the auction last week. Prices averaged about $22 per skin, lower than last year's. It takes six or seven skins to make a woman's coat. With some ten thousand more skins to sell Oct. 12, the U. S. will probably make about $350,000 this year...
...Yorker's story, aside from the facts that Mr. Adams is unaware of the difference (if there is any) between a cross potent and a dove proper, and did not write the quoted remarks, he had nothing to do with the correspondence on the subject of an Adams coat of arms. That was left entirely in the hands of his cousin Henry Adams. He simply regretted, speaking for the family, his inability to give what it did not possess. "Curiously enough, in the whole course of his letters to the Harvard authorities the name of no other Boston family...