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Word: lacquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to produce art is to stand in front of a canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealist | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

National Distillers Products Corp., whose products include medicinal spirits, lacquer solvents, maraschino cherries, extracts sold to the ice cream & candy trade, olives and fruit, earned $376,000 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Good Showings | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Opened Eyes | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...John stood pale blue pilasters around the ballroom, hung it with coral pink curtains, placed above the dancers an oval blue sky with dancing white stars. Edmund Dulac did the smoking room, "Cathay Lounge." with a silver ceiling, panels of black & silver glass, accents of Chinese red lacquer and Macassar ebony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Empress of Space! | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps-Howard | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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