Word: grime
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...spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas Cranach; instead of one of the 16th century master's sly, dreamy-looking women, the canvas showed a mysterious black-cloaked, black-hooded figure. The countess got to work, and sure enough, under the black was a typical...
...past year, fear that other stations will soon be wiped off the map. New Jerseyites have formed a "protective association" to get some action on such claimed commutation hazards as wooden trestles, high fares, and cars that let in snow and soot in the winter, heat and grime in the summer. Philadelphians, where the bulk of commuters ride, are kinder. Said one: "When we knock the Pennsy, we knock it gently, like an old pipe or a good wife...
...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...
Before 1863, Yale men suffered from a serious lack of good imbibing spots in New Haven. The town bars were filled with grime-stained workmen, not the cleanly-scrubbed and wealthy young bloods of the local university...
...building of empire. She made long progresses with him through their possessions, sometimes levied justice and taxes when he was away, and more than all, reformed the manners of Western Europe to woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime-necked from the chase, into a lady's presence; instead, the bear-limbed barons were required to get up in gay, slashed mantles and pointed shoes and drench themselves in a daze of scent...