Word: porcelains
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Upper registers of the "Claviphone," it is claimed, are an improvement over those of an ordinary piano, long a problem to engineers. Says Inventor Nernst: "My friend Einstein, who, you know, is very musical, says they [high piano notes] sound like porcelain getting smashed...
...rare porcelain jug, of the "Thunder" variety was recently found on the piano in the House common room, together with a framed inscription from the anonymous donors reading: "This bowl is presented to the Lowell House crew in recognition of its undefeated season, and is to remain a perpetual trophy of the annual Lowell-Dunster race...
...sooner had he left than M. Le President dashed to the station. Soon he was rumbling toward Nice with the vanload of presents stowed away in the baggage car of his special train- presents for the Bey of Tunis: a gold encrusted hunting rifle and splendorous vases of Sevres porcelain. For all the wives of the Bey of Tunis, knowing Bachelor Doumergue took bracelets, earrings and other jewelry. For Tunisian chiefs he took dozens of dazzlingly chased rifles...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
Idea for the contest and money for the prizes came from wealthy, white-mustached Herr Geheimrat Doktor Philipp Rosenthal, president and founder of Rosenthal China Corp. Largest of German potters, his various factories make every thing from fine porcelain dinner services to lighting fixtures, kitchen appliances, high tension insulators. German business men know that he is directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain...