Word: ink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...
Impatient to handshake President Herbert Hoover, Premier Pierre Laval last week shoved ahead two days the sailing date of the French Line ship that will carry him, 5. S. lie de France. Promptly in several hundred European hotels other passengers booked on the lie de France seized the usual ink-clogged pens, dipped them furiously into the familiar purple fluid, scratched and splattered torrents of protest...
...resourcefulness in the conduct of a little advertised but important part of the war machine. MI-8, organized through Yardley's initiative, had its hands full in keeping pace with German chemists, who gave their spies silk scarves, or even silk-covered tuxedo-buttons, impregnated with secret ink chemicals which could be devolped with only one specific reagent. It was the Secret Ink Bureau which brought about the capture of Madame de Victoria, most dangerous of the German spies, who introduced high explosives in marble figures for altar decoration, and was in charge of blowing up war industry plants, docks...
...nice gift. But something really original in the way of a piano! He commissioned Carl Bechstein, who had been in the trade in Berlin for just eleven years, to make one. Today, visitors to Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth are always shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house in Berlin (not far from the sumptuous Bechstein salon in new. smart West End) rests the white marble bust of Richard Wagner which the composer sent in gratitude...
...magazine's editor, wrote about soap models. C. J. Bulliet, theatre critic and art editor of the Evening Post, gave an elementary lecture on modern art. There were two pages in four colors, several pages of photographs in the modern manner, eight pages of illustrations in blue ink. All was put together with a finish and flair worthy of a national publication, to make a magazine worthy of bigger & better Chicago...