Word: oils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin in Russia...
...named chairman of the American Red Cross in 1935-Died. Prince Nicholas of Greece, 66, uncle of Greece's King George II, father of Britain's Duchess of Kent; of a stroke; in Athens. In impoverished exile in Paris, 1924-35, he improved his time with oil painting, occasionally showing as "M. Nicholas Leprince...
...sheet iron with heavy black enamel, firing it at such a high temperature that the enamel and iron are fused, then firing on two more coats of white enamel. On this the artist paints as if it were canvas, using pigments of powdered enamel mixed with a special oil. The panel is then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample panels in this medium displayed in last week...
...theory that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
...Island. When he arrived in Los Angeles, two years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana's famed penal colony. With him he carried, wrapped in oil paper, 30 pounds of closely-written manuscript describing his 15-year imprisonment...