Word: copperizing
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...Harvard Lampoon published a little book about itself, the first chapter of which described the Lampoon building in some detail. "The roof of the tower," it said, "is capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in a large and meditative Ibis...
Since December, 1961, when villains made their way to the top of the building, however, the tower has been capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in the claw and lower portion of the leg of an Ibis. Presumably, the change was effected with some diabolical cutting tool...
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost...
...small copper plate such as might be used to engrave a visiting card, Mr. Barnard cut a pretty profile of the young Queen Victoria, but instead of engraving "Post Paid" along one edge of the stamp,* he made it "Post Office...
...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...