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...unemployed resemble last summer's B. E. F. Typical shots: The President forbidding his Secretary of War to mobilize against the army of unemployed; advising his Cabinet to read the Constitution; insisting on having microphones on the table at a diplomatic conference; signing the Washington Covenant with a feather pen that drops out of his hand as he finishes the last letter...
Author Garnett, like everyone else, calls his heroine Pocahontas ("bright stream between two hills"), does not give her traditional real name Matoax ("snow feather"), occasionally uses her baptismal name, Rebecca...
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...