Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Anglian burial ship ever found that vandals had not looted. In it was a king's cargo: plates of beaten silver delicately embossed, gold clasps inlaid with garnets and mosaic, a great gold buckle chased and ornamented with black enamel filling. Archeologists descending on the scene thought that the king was probably King Raedwald of East Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain...
...people pay the Somoza expenses during the visit, from New Orleans to Washington to the New York World's Fair & back. f Senor Somoza's presents to Sefior Roosevelt: a complete issue of Nicaraguan stamps; an 8-ft. table inlaid with Nicaraguan hardwoods and gold, showing Roosevelt I and a map of the Panama Canal, Roosevelt II and a much bigger map of Nicaragua and the proposed canal...
Cambridge ought to have silver streets "with mother of pearl borders and platinum edgestones, inlaid with opals and lapis lazuli" declared a weekend bulletin of the Cambridge Taxpayers Association which decried the amount of money borrowed by this city for road construction...
...order for 18 of Brother Charles's picture frames enabled the Prendergast brothers to move to a studio on Manhattan's Washington Square. Charles gradually became known for decorative panels inlaid with silver and gold leaf, of which last week the Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke...
...surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony and semiprecious stones. Hopkins died before it was finished. Leaning on his hoe, he used to stare at it skeptically and ask reporters if they thought it would pay dividends...