Word: lacquerer
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Everyone who has ever been to one knows that the Smokers have a great tradition. There is beer without taste only at a Smoker. First year frustrations are grandly released when freshmen throw pennies at individual performers. The floor of Memorial Hall gets a beer lacquer, and everybody sloshes around and throws beer at one another, and laughs, and goes home...
...informal roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall paneled in sturdy oak, a sleek, yellow lacquer desk...
Ever since Du Font's quick-drying lacquer (Duco) revolutionized automobile painting in the 1920s, chemists have tried to find a similar paintmaking resin which could be dissolved in water, instead of in costly, inflammable solvents. But almost anything that water would dissolve could also be washed away by water after it dried. Last week Reichhold introduced a water-soluble resin which is the base for a paint that, after baking, can't be washed off. Moreover, it also withstands weathering, salt water and corrosion. For automakers, Reichhold's resin may mean an end to flash fires...
Contemporary with the European Renaissance in art, the Ming (or "Radiant") era was one in which craftsmanship and art were synonymous. It produced a dazzling array of boldly colored and designed textiles, in addition to the fine lacquer work, painting and ceramics for which the period is best known...
Among the most striking statues in the exhibition was a Nara-period lacquer of the demigod Karura, one of the legendary protectors of Shakamuni Buddha. His unknown craftsman visualized him as looking a good deal like an ancient warrior, with stern glance, hanging jowls and a suit of mail-but distinguished from ordinary mortals by a belligerently bird-like beak...