Word: porcelains
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...should like to call attention to the internal machines that have been placed in Widener. Emerson and other places for the purpose of drying one's hands. The first time I saw one I was distinctly impressed. Shining with porcelain and polished nickel they seemed the incarnation of this hygienic age. Expecting a scientific miracle, I pushed the pedal, spread out my dripping pans and awaited results. A low, dismal groan arose and a ghastly breeze numbed my fingers. I thought of Hamlet's father and my hands shook clumsily as though covered with gore. After three minutes intercourse with...
...ships, New England girls, New England landscapes etched in pearly monotones. Mr. Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely touched. More spirited are the dancing sprites of Arthur Spear after the mode of Robert Chanler, the pencil drawings of Charles Woodbury...
...collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress EugÉnie; Staffordshire ware, vessels, plates, figurines; European and Chinese porcelains; Chinese porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods and climes; paintings and panels by Jan van Beers, contemporary Dutchman; silver...
...Converse was a man of sterling character and force," declared Bishop Lawrence in his letter telling of the gift, "He had many interests, and was well known as a collector of Chinese porcelain, paintings and armour. He was also the owner of one of the largest and most successful fruit farms in the East. He typified the best of professional business men, and his interest in educational effort was always intense. Among other things he endowed a professorship of banking in the School of Business Administration at the University...
...microbe of the disease is still unknown. A number have been cultivated from the virus, but their identity with the germ is doubtful. It may be destroyed by heating to 60° Centigrade, and has been demonstrated by German investigators to be capable of passing through the pores of a porcelain filter. It probably belongs therefore to the class of ultramicroscopic organisms called filterable viri. One attack of the disease usually confers immunity on the cattle for several years, and animals have been imunized artificially by dosages of the sera of infected animals...