Word: porcelain
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Indignation boiled in every line of a public statement issued by the State Manufactory of Sevres, renowned porcelain...
Alvaro Obregon, born in the remote hamlet of Huatabampo, Sonora, 850 miles northwest of Mexico City, was solemnly returned thither, last week, to seek honest, humble rest. Over his grave will rise no ornate tombstone but at the head will rest a Crown of Clay, baked hard as porcelain. By this traditional symbol, the Republic of Mexico, which cannot crown a living hero, is accustomed to pay royal homage to the Heroic Dead...
Webster's New International disparages the "obsolete, rare or English" sense in which "Chinaman" means "a dealer in porcelain," but fully authorizes the meaning "a Chinese," in which sense alone "Chinaman" is occasionally used by TIME...
...Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...
...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...