Word: enamels
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...twinkled upon the gilt-and-enamel lapel buttons, vest trinkets and watch charms of many a party of Elks, Masons, Moose, Knights of this and that, Loyal Sons of the other thing, as they craned their necks and arched their chests making holiday excursions up and down the Hudson River. Last week a municipal steamboat set out from Manhattan for West Point and again the sun twinkled on a galaxy of insignia, more chaste this time than usual, dangling at the midriffs of several score of distinguished looking gentlemen...
...Price of a Party. New York again. Broadway with its surface of enamel happiness and hidden tears. A good girl with a sick mother. An offer of much money for a bit of shady business. Mother to get well on the money, of course. A vampire to solve the situation and wring happiness out of a dripping conclusion. Hope Hampton to play it in association with Harrison Ford, Mary Astor and Dagmar Godowsky...
...Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods and climes; paintings and panels by Jan van Beers, contemporary Dutchman; silver and pewter ; miniatures in enamel and ivory; silhouettes and medallions; cameos, intaglios, jewelry, ornaments; U. S. and British drums from the Revolution; a British silk battle flag; early U. S. prints; three bronze treasure caskets, elaborately fashioned, carefully following Gothic models of famed Venetian chests, which had been constructed in Paris expressly for Mr. Belasco...
...have nothing to do with the issue and in places does seem a bit trite. This is only to be expected when one considers how carefully the subject has been combed for years, only to dig out the old wheezes and ancient inane comments that cracked the face enamel of our Grandmothers...
...racks which hold the sixty miles of shelves are all in place. Both are of pressed steel, covered with a dark grey enamel. There are sixteen floors of these cases, capable of holding 2,500,000 volumes. Work on them has ceased, and the shelves will be in place by the first of April. These main book cases are extremely open. They extend only seven and a half feet from the floor, so that every volume may be reached without a stand. Means for transporting the books to and from the shelves, and a numbering system, have been carefully arranged...