Word: porcelain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into a circle, then to make later balls touch or rest close to the original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations of successful rolls, bundling their complicated silk togas about small nervous bodies...
Reading in TIME, March 7, under EDUCATION the account of that Oxford "Rag" which was the most successful and which resulted in the rather unassailable installation of a common porcelain toilet article upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, I was immediately struck with the thought that this article in porcelain would be most brittle, and a righteous and easy target for the authorities as well as a tempting one for anybody else, and therefore most certainly not out of reach as your narrative would have...
...Oxford "rags" none was ever more successful than the occasion upon which an expert undergraduate steeplejack poised, upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, far beyond the reach of troglodytic municipal navvies, a common porcelain toilet article...
...Inventor Edison was so intent on maintaining the profitable novelty of his pictures in the U. S. that he neglected to patent his process abroad. The side rooms of the theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated...
...York Hospital one night last week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside him, watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper, upward and sideways, toward the brain- then stood frozen with horror as the palpable darkness of tragedy blinded them. Every light in the hospital had suddenly gone...