Word: ink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 ink from his plates before each printing...
Cinema and stage folk run to large, expensive Christmas cards, with heavy silver paper and fancy typography. Alla Nazimova sends her signature, in red ink. Lily Pons puts a picture of herself in a folder of heavy silver paper, wrapped in cellophane. Eddie Cantor caricatures his large eyes, surrounded by holly wreaths. Helen Morgan sits on a piano, weeping and singing. George Gershwin caricatures his profile. Percy Crosby shows his "Skippy" kneeling by his bed, saying: "Dear God, it's funny how ya get to thinkin' of the old pals on Christmas...
...Limerick about the consternation of the young lady from Back Bay who once threw a Transcript away expresses it exactly. The Boston Evening Transcript is a landmark and an institution, and as such not to be defiled. Its pages, which come from the press smelling more strongly of printers' ink than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly discard such...
...months ago announcement by L.E. Waterman Co. (pens,ink) of an autograph-collecting contest for children under 16, loosed a horde of some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch...
...gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst...