Word: pewter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the centuries, but the last of it is scraped away in Henry Fielding, by Frederick Homes Dudden, master of Oxford's Pembroke College, a biography which must now become the standard work on Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...
RAFFI at 12 Brattle Street is living up to its reputation for being the center of the different, the rare, and the beautiful. Its latest object dart is this pewter patches, imported from Holland. Its starkly, sweeping lines, lend an atmosphere of dignity to any surrounding. The pitchers come in sizes from one point to two quarts, and are priced, accordingly, from...
Perfection in pure, beaten pewter is one of the hallmarks of EVANS INTERNATIONAL, at 61 Church. The flask and mug above provide for the drinking man at home and away. Either can be engraved or fitted with the Harvard seal. The flask is priced...
Good as Gold. In Denver, Prospector Everett B. Gardner returned a 200-lb. pewter statue he found on a gold-hunting expedition to the Keifer Plumbing Co., which had reported it stolen, collected a $50 reward...