Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portraits and bits of statuary. But what excited all Society members last week was not their wares on the gallery walls but the increasing use of two devices which have been giving illustrators an increasing amount of unwanted playtime : the high speed camera lens and the modern photographic color plate...
Even humbler was the Rev. Brother C. F. X. Athanasius who had a fine still life of a plate of peaches for $35. Taxi-driver Joseph Dunphy would never have had his two pictures in the exhibit at all if an unknown benefactor had not donated the necessary $8 after appeals printed by kindly newshawks...
...calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated man in that city), when Southern ladies pointedly turned their backs on him: "These ladies evidently know which end of them looks best...
...anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur ("All Armor Plate -No Brains...
...element and represents the maximum arc temperature. Determining this constant within narrow limits provides, according to Dr. Chaney, "a convenient and much needed bench mark for all high temperature measurements." It is of help especially to makers of abrasives, artificial gems, fine tools, fine steel for armor plate...