Word: kiln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piper's latest subjects are conventional enough: fountains and flowers, church courtyards, an island hotel, a village pump, a lime kiln. What made the paintings unmistakably Pipers were the colors and compositions. There were great swatches of bright yellow and bone white against russet and black, planes of dark shadows with fiery pinwheels of yellow, white and red. And the scenes had an air of amiable ruin: old fonts and arches decked in new flowers. In no time most of the 31 pictures were sold or spoken...
...busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet's men use the idle...
Quick Dryer. The Wood Electric Kiln Co. of North Berwick, Me. demonstrated a time-saving electronic kiln for drying green lumber. By using kiln-drying combined with high-frequency radiation, lumber in Wood's kiln can be dried in as little as 15 hours, instead of the seven to eight days needed in the present steam-heated type kilns...
...give up opera and operatic arias completely, sing only less strenuous lieder. She limited her concert tours to two months a year, spent the remaining ten months at her California home. When she wasn't singing, she painted watercolors, fired ceramics of her own design in her home kiln, worked on her fifth book, Of Heaven, Hell and Hollywood...
Free Drinks & Applause. Like thousands of unskilled youngsters before and since, Arthur criss-crossed the continent getting by on such odd jobs as dishwashing and wrestling bricks from kiln to wheelbarrow to freight car. He was befriended in New York by a prostitute with a storybook heart of gold; by a sentimental Irish cop in Akron; by a priest who gave him his first religious instruction. In 1920, to continue his interrupted education, Godfrey joined the Navy, was baptized a. Roman Catholic by his chaplain at Norfolk, and-briefly-was fired by the ambition to become a priest...