Word: patina
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...British Colonial Secretary, recently dipped in hot tea and then in scalding coffee, brooded, last week, over the lobby of the House of Commons. By tea and coffee this blatantly brand new statue of the late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down to a decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet Russia (see above...
...Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...