Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From an organ suggestively marked THIS ORGAN LUBRICATED BY STANDARD OIL came chords. A choir took up the chant: "Hallelujah...
...front of this bar is painted to represent a wood railing, with the counter portions of mahogany. Shelves painted lacquer red backed by mirrored glass with a painted decoration in the centre contribute to the gaiety of this space...
...tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the walls striped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass...
...physiologists and their families who joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass. William Henry Howell, scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school of hygiene and public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental...
Also in Minneapolis was held the first National Philatelic Exposition. Here were gathered, in long rows of glinting glass cases, $1,000,000 worth of stamps owned by 100 collectors. To signalize the event a model post office was erected where visitors could mail commemorative letters home by sticking on a lowly, uncan-celed, U. S. carmine 2¢ stamp, the latest issue of which celebrates the golden jubilee of electric light and Thomas Alva Edison...