Word: lacquerer
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...last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
Muneyoshi Yanagi, who recently lectured in the Fine Arts Department, has arranged the display. Examples of English and Japanese weaving and pottery are its features. In speaking of his work, Yanagi says, "The present exhibition of pottery, textiles, lacquer and metal work of Japanese and English workers is especially noteworthy because in it is shown in America for the first time the work of a group of people who are wholly uninfluenced by methods of modern commercial production. In so far as these methods detract from the quality, beauty, and vitality of things made for personal or domestic...
...exhibition is comprised of jars, plates, vases and so forth on the pottery line. There will be scarfs, shawls, and samples of many types of weaving done by private concerns in England and Japan. Lacquer, metal, and textile work are also to be seen. It is understood that the articles are to be for sale...
This collection, which is beginning an American tour with the Harvard show, includes examples of lacquer work as done today by Japanese potters, and many pieces made in imitation of ancient methods of glazing. The Oriental work and the work of English weavers has been brought direct from Japan and England...
...were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches, sweeping curves and broken lines appropriate to their environment. A typical many-tiered, pagoda-topped tower overlooks an artificial lake, and a pair of gargoyle-like lions guard the multicolored, richly ornamented Alumni gate...