Word: lacquerer
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Thereafter, during their meetings, doctors rode up and down Palmer House elevators without let. Attendants who padded outside the hotel's Red Lacquer Room where the doctors met, might have been scandalized by the medical damnation that sounded through the doors. They knew that some of the conferring doctors were famed?Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, Dr. William James Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. They did not know that the emphatic doctors were enjoying themselves, giving a sound thrashing to other members of their profession. The doctors knew that their advice was good; they knew too that...
Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward-masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri...
Heihachiro Togo, Admiral of the Fleet, spoke with low purring earnestness. When he fell silent his captains filed past the lacquer tray one by one. Their eyes met firmly the piercing glance of Togo...
...lacquer tray containing harakiri instruments...
...their temple he seized the invitation as a good excuse for getting out of Athens. It is unlikely that he worked in "gold and ivory"; he was no metalsmith although he cast some of his heads in bronze; he would not have known what to do with the "lacquer and precious stones" that Pausanias talked about. He doubtless made this god, like his others, of Parian marble, or the pale veined marble from Naxos; artisans polished the stone until it resembled ivory, and added the gilt. The head discovered by Professor Guidi bears evidence of such gilding and polishing. What...