Word: lacings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hands. The Hahn picture is the same width as the Louvre painting, but 7½ inches shorter. In 1752, the first descriptive catalog of the royal picture gallery described a woman in red, by Leonardo, "holding a piece of lace in her hands." Measurements of this picture are the same as those of the present Louvre portrait which has no hands. The supposition is that when the Hahn portrait was transferred from wood to canvas in 1777,* the 7½ inches at the bottom containing the hands...
...shaped like a soup-plate. In 1931 he proved this by taking a trip around the world's periphery. When he returned he bragged to newsmen that he was "worth $10,000,000" (TIME, March 16, 1931). He owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed at $800,000, assets at $2,000,000, mostly frozen. For two years 5,000 Zion employes had received no regular pay checks...
Three Harvard tennis teams will play out of town matches today and tomorrow. The Varsity netmen travel to Princeton today to meet the Orange and Black Saturday at 3 o'clock. The Jayvee outfit journeys to Andover tomorrow, while the Freshmen players lace Milton at Milton this afternoon...
...American exhibition in galleries four and five, the silver is important because the pieces were given to the University in the early eighteenth century by students who wished to be Fellow Commoners. To become one, he had simply to present plate to the University, and then he could wear lace in his hat, and did not have to do fag duty for the upperclassmen. The portraits on display, which are of the same period, represent people once closely connected with the University, such as Nicholas Boylston, professor of Rhetoric, after whom is named the professorship the Hall, and the street...
...silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife, Augusta, to marry a mining camp belle named Baby Doe. President Arthur attended the wedding, in Washington, just after Haw Tabor had wangled himself a seat in the U. S. Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with gold buttons; he was swindled out of a fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor...