Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above and below him. For aiding Free Belgium two men were shot and scores of others died slowly in German concentration camps without ever knowing who produced the paper, or where...
Method No. 1 begins by coating a piece of sheet iron with heavy black enamel, firing it at such a high temperature that the enamel and iron are fused, then firing on two more coats of white enamel. On this the artist paints as if it were canvas, using pigments of powdered enamel mixed with a special oil. The panel is then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample...
...small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly Asks Why? . . . Is Mrs. Selznik such a social wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Goldwyn such a wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Louis B. Mayer...
From the Low Countries there are three Rembrandts (a sheet of heads, an interior and a sketch of landscape), two Van Dycks (a suit of splendid armor, front and back) and two figure studies by Rubens of which the sketch for the apostles in the Vienna "Assumption" is especially prized by the Museum...
...sage scanned the sheet, chucked, proceeded to exclamations of surprise, and replied, "So sorry, unfortunately I do not think I can tell you what that means...