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...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fountain Pens | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Colgate-Pompeian. Bayard Colgate, director of Colgate & Co. (soaps, perfumes, toilet articles), went to Cleveland last week to talk with President Otto F. Leopold of Pompeian Manufacturing Co. (cosmetics). Result: Colgate & Co. acquired control of the Pompeian concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...aboard the Leviathan last week, Queen Marie of Rumania saw anchored in her honor in the harbor of Cherbourg, France, the especially decorated and electrically festooned U. S. European flagship Memphis; arose before breakfast on the first morning for a plunge in the Leviathan's "Pompeian Swimming Pool" with her daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Lecture. The House of Vettius, the latest Pompeian Excavation (illustrated with lantern slides). Professor Morgan. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 1/13/1897 | See Source »

Lecture. The House of Vettius, the latest Pompeian Excavation (illustrated with lantern slides). Professor Morgan. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 1/9/1897 | See Source »

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