Word: goldsmithing
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...Novelist Ernest Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of Miró's earliest efforts to distill the essence of Spain and the way in which its savage, whimsical, passionate people still cling close to the earth. The scene depicts the farm bought by his father, a Barcelona goldsmith, at Montroig, a coastal village in Catalonia. For all its literalness, the painting is anything but realistic. By its microscopic stylization, it turns each detail, including the lizard and snail in the foreground, into a symbol. "I wanted," recalls Miró, "to penetrate into the spirit of objects. I realized...
...Ralph S. Goldsmith, associate in Medicine, was injured by the flying glass. City Hospital surgeons performed an emergency skin graft operation on Dr. Goldsmith to replace flesh torn from his scalp. Goldsmith, who was conducting the lab's experiments in endocrinology, was released Saturday...
...manufacture of firearms was an exacting, highly skilled craft, and most great gunmakers were often jewelers or watchmakers, even scientists. It was a French goldsmith who invented one of the first true flintlocks; and although he was never a professional gunmaker, Leonardo da Vinci designed one of the first wheel locks. The makers of the best firearms took tremendous pride in their craft, signed their names to weapons along with dates, proverbs and poetry, and passed on their skills from father to son, sometimes over centuries...
...Suburbs. Under the tandem supervision of Fred and Ralph Lazarus, Federated has grown at a breathless pace. The company, which includes Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus in New York, Burdine's of Miami, Filene's of Boston, Foley's of Houston and Goldsmith's of Memphis, has built so many suburban stores that last year, for the first time, branch sales exceeded those of big downtown stores. In 1964, in its latest acquisition move, Federated took over Bullock's of Cal ifornia, which includes I. Magnin & Co., a Bullock subsidiary with 20 stores that...
Little is known about his life, though he was much admired in his time. The son of a goldsmith, Schönfeld, a Protestant, was born in 1609 in Swabia. He studied in Stuttgart, then traveled to Rome and Naples, where his style became more Italianate, and where he won commissions from the princely Orsinis and the Torlonias. In 1651, after the end of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, Schönfeld returned to his homeland and settled in Augsburg, where he married and built a home. Before his death in 1682 or 1683, he traveled the length...