Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That he may be adopted by an Indian tribe and given a feather headdress, delights the gangling physicist from Brussels. What he has heard concerning Manhattan terrifies him. Cried he last week: "Of the stratosphere I am not afraid. But what those journalists will...
...into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler's etchings is due to the fact that he was a superb wiper, had an unerring touch in wiping just the right amount of excess...
...first recorded game of golf, reprinted from an illuminated Book of Hours in 1457 in the British Museum, Engineer Campbell dumped the rest of his treasures on the deck for the benefit of ship news reporters. They included a number of bullet hard leather pellets stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff...
...August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores of serpents are caught, imprisoned in the kiva. The priests dip them into jars of a sacred liquid...
...white-haired dame with the patrician profile and shallow-crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch...