Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special Torgsin stores which sell only for valuta (foreign money), if he has any valuta-a difficult thing for a Russian to obtain. Last week the bars went down a little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan...
Everyone knows that an etching is made by scratching lines through the wax "ground" on a copper plate with a needle, then biting the exposed lines into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler...
...long-suffering husband dropped dead in his soup plate when she absentmindedly toasted Germany at a dinner in the Russian Embassy. The play finds Clytemnestra, her two antic sons and more sensible daughter inhabiting their villa at Nice, broke. Even the daughter's practical U. S. suitor cannot keep Mrs. Hope from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework...
...than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week: "I'm getting older, and hot-cha doesn...
...company of his inevitable spaniel, pruning the barberry hedge along Quincy Street. Top-hatted and tall-coated, he once deserted a meeting of the overseers of the university to assist workmen at an excavation back of Matthews Hall where it was reported buried fragments of eighteenth century Harvard blue plate had been recovered. His fund of anecdotes is inexhaustible. The conductors of the subway to Boston salute him by name since, like all true and thrifty Gantabrigians, he eschews the costly taxi. In every sense of an abused word he has been an assured and amiable aristocrat...