Word: patina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
...years there "Copey" would let no electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...
...definitely a part of the socialite calendar as the horse show, the opera, the flower show, or Newport's tennis week. Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from booth to booth smiling pleasantly at dealers, murmuring: "Nice bit of spode," "I question that settle," "Lovely chair, but the patina is gone." Enthusiasms were reserved for explosively greeting their friends. Inside the dealers' booths, elegant young gentlemen, patrician young ladies, looked languidly down their noses...