Word: linoleums
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...cause of it all was brand new linoleum, slick as ice. The auditorium manager promised to sand it thoroughly before the next performance...
Corpse on the Linoleum. All during his adolescence Beaton kept snapping Kodak pictures of his Mummie and his two sisters. At Harrow, he found a willing subject in a schoolmate, and posed him, early one morning, half nude in the headmaster's garden. The headmaster's wife witnessed the scene, and Beaton took no more neoclassic pictures at Harrow...
Beaton did. Soon he had his first show (full of such surrealisms as the famous photograph of Edith Sitwell-as a corpse on a strip of linoleum), and became notorious overnight as the wild man of British photography. In a few years puckish Cecil had captivated a good share of the rich society-photography trade in New York as well as in London, and had published a book of his photographs. One of Cecil's subjects, Lady Cunard, was so displeased with the book that she set her copy afire in the midst of a luncheon party, then seized...
...Raised the percentage of steel that producers must set aside for defense, in some cases to 35%, limited the use of tungsten as a coloring agent in linoleum, ink, rubber...
...window and a real wood-burning fireplace. Upstairs was an expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½. Each front door was flanked by the advertised "shrubbery"-two arborvitae bushes. All the floors were linoleum-covered, all the walls were plywood, and all the lumber was green...