Word: linoleums
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...room across the hall from his linoleum-floored office is an old, flimsy Wright airplane of early vintage. For Inventor Kettering was interested in airplanes as well as motorcars. He learned to fly in 1912. When he gave up in the early 1920's because he had "too much insurance to fly." he had accumulated more flying hours than any other private pilot...
...Philharmonic Society Orchestra. The Hoffmans were quickly accepted by the very stiffest New York society. But there were five children; finances were slim. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by painting portraits of her friends, designing book jackets, covers for sheet music, wall paper, linoleum...
...Kruse's color--print, "Die Blumenkrone," and the "Pieta" a color print by Louis Jou are noteworthy in their class. The "Pieta " of Gwendolen Raverat, the gift of H. S. Bowers '00. is similar to the paintings of the Avignon school in its deliberate stylization. "The Pilot," a linoleum cut by Marion Richardson, an American contemporary, is a portrayal of Christ as a helmsman...
...Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will be pigskin. Tube aluminum furniture will be upholstered in hairhide. There will be 16-sided lounging rooms with copper ceilings...
Noteworthy in International Music Hall is the use of modern industrial materials with which Donald Deskey has always been potent. Out of Bakelite, chromium-plated steel, pyroxalin, aluminum, linoleum, he proposes to create "an effect of splendor and magnificence...