Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gingerbreads of "honor" were gifts of distinction on special occasions. . . . The birth of Peter the Great, for example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
Hulking Jesse Jones, 68, 6 ft. 3, 220 lb., grabbed Meyer's coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...
Another nurse shortly appeared at the head of the stairs, asked him to come up, remove his coat, loosen his collar, and roll up his sleeve. Vag did so, and entered the death chamber with a light foot but a heavy heart. Seeing the preponderance of elderly dowagers, college girls and other assorted females, however, Vag gritted his teeth and said to himself, "If they can do it, so can I." He lay down on the designated bed, held out his arm in a gesture of resignation, and prepared to watch the proceedings...
...said a dispatch this week from Oslo. The mass resignation followed another coat turning by Vidkun Quisling, who decided to call himself a theologian. Claiming ex-officio standing as "First Bishop" of the established Lutheran Church of Norway, Quisling announced a "new Norwegian Christianity based on race and Lebensraum...
Standing before it, and looking through it at the light, Artist Nicolas is then ready to do his painting. Covering the glass first with an opaque coat of copper-oxide pigment, he draws in the highlights and flowing lines of his figures by brushing away the pigment and letting the light shine through again. When he is through, the puzzle picture is carefully scrambled again, sent to bake in a kiln until each stroke of pigment left on the glass is melted permanently into the pane. The panes are then reassembled, fixed permanently in place with strips of lead...