Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some lean years for the firm in a land that had apparently forgotten all about ships and shipping. Gibbs & Cox designed the world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...
...retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more & more like some ancient beauty whose memory is fading, whose sight is failing and whose hearing and teeth are gone. But Tessie never anticipated what happened last week...
...ancient graves the scientists found more than in the ruined houses. Some skulls contain large ivory eyeballs inlaid with jet pupils (see cut, p. 59). Birdlike ivory beaks were substituted for the corpse's nose. Who were these people? How did they manage to live? Whence did they come, whither did they go? Says Professor Rainey: "We, as archeologists, have a difficult problem to explain the Ipiutak culture...
...Received from the Inaugural Gift Committee (design and binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, who used 6,650 pieces of inlaid leather) for his Hyde Park library a special edition (estimated value: $5,000) of 20 cobalt-blue volumes, bound in French Levant morocco, of the Grolier Society's Book of Knowledge...
Between ranching and cartooning, he sometimes finds time to try a little serious sculpture and watercolor painting. But most of his leisure he spends puttering about the ranch, building rock gardens, making inlaid silver ornaments, casting fancy doorsteps and fountains out of colored cement. At 52 Jim Williams is proud of his sinewy, paunchless figure, boasts that he weighs the same 168 lb. that he did when he was a cowpuncher at 15. Says he: "All my life my hands and body have earned me a living. I have kept them in good shape to this...