Word: lacquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge...
...unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent sheen of their plumage. Painted in thin oil paint on specially processed illustration board, the portraits glowed like old Chinese lacquer...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...
Luncheon--Thursday, December 26, at 12:30 in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House...
Sunshine & Dew. Automobile makers and owners used to think that the worst enemy of a new car's gleaming coat of lacquer was sunshine. Chemist Ralph J. Wirshing of General Motors investigated this notion, found it false. Experiments in Florida showed that a car's paint job suffered most from midnight to noon, least from noon to midnight. Wirshing suspected that dew was the enemy, confirmed this by experiments with artificial dew produced in a "dew box." For some unknown reason rain is much less harmful than dew. Moral: keep cars sheltered at night, even in summer...