Word: lacquering
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...front of this bar is painted to represent a wood railing, with the counter portions of mahogany. Shelves painted lacquer red backed by mirrored glass with a painted decoration in the centre contribute to the gaiety of this space...
...Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father's Manhattan tabloid (Daily News) to dancing with Chicago's eligibles. He also took Lieut. Frederick Becker as pilot, Engineer Sutter, Radioman Roe and Newsman Floyd Gibbons. In Liberty's red leather and lacquer cabin Publisher Patterson studied maps and winds while Daughter Alicia snuggled on a chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed at Havana four days. A "norther" swept across the bay. nearly bumped a bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took...
Loud cries warned that the Son of Heaven was entering the Shishinden from the North. To the South, all 'round the courtyard, spectators stiffened to immobility. Slowly the slender, spectacled Tenno paced up the steps of the Takamikura and sat down in his black lacquer chair. Pompously the Lord Chamberlain placed upon stands adjoining the Throne, the sacred Sword and Jewel, emblems and relics of the Sun Goddess, which, together with the Divine Mirror, attest the utter sanctity of the enthronement. Then a plain wooden baton was presented to the Tenno - "The Scepter...
...General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric arc whence an air blast blows the melting aluminum against its carrier object, just as paint or lacquer is blown. This (a Swiss method) produces a porous aluminum coating little protective against acids...
...study of union, non-union and open shop labor conditions that Vice President Staunton B. Peck of the Link-Belt Co. concluded last week for the National Association of Manufacturers, naturally hoped to put a rosy lacquer on the open shop principle of employing labor, that is, of making no discrimination against union or non-union labor, just so that the union organizations do not pester the employers...