Word: handwrought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kenneth Lynch, little more than 30, host and protagonist of last week's ceremony, is proud to be called a blacksmith, but within the past five years he has become one of the best known producers of handwrought metal work in the country, decorating dozens of hotels, churches, country houses, with screens, grilles, gateways, lanterns. Swords and armor are his hobby; in a few respects his reference library is supposed to equal that of the Metropolitan Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple...
...make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...