Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough handling or sudden changes of temperature it is more liable to develop cracks than one all of whose constituents dry at the same speed...
...RACKET-Police, bootleggers, easy virtue, guns, two deaths; Chicago in the rough...
...Royal Family. Play has piled upon play about the theatre this season. Burlesque, single great success of the lot, is now challenged by the rough & tumble history of an august theatrical family. It is a story of the Drews and Barrymores say some people (including indignant Barrymores); cries of "no, no", from Authors George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. What of it? The play amuses...
Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, said tha transferring the airline to the S-4's "ears" had required special pipefitting which could not be . got ready before rough weather halted diving operations...
Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...