Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...
...coloring matter, being separated from the blood serum. In the Svedberg centrifuge this takes about six hours. By gravity sedimentation alone it would require 180 years. Du Pont expects the apparatus to shed light on the sizes and weights of the "giant" protein molecules in rubber, wool, silk, cellulose, hundreds of plastics...
Mistress of a popular Paris salon, Mme Cuttoli found it easy to reach her painters, hard to convince them that their fluid daubings could be fittingly reproduced in silk and wool. Her first convert, five years ago, was Georges Rouault, onetime apprentice in a stained-glass factory. But the painters were simple to manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will...
...bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp...
Blind Alec Templeton was brought to Chicago lately as a specialty performer by British Bandmaster Jack Hylton, whose orchestra plays at the Drake Hotel and over the radio sponsored by Standard Oil of Indiana. By this week, when Real Silk Hosiery was to take over the sponsorship, critics were convinced that an amazing musical talent had quietly turned up in Chicago. Young Templeton was born blind, of Scottish parents, on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. At 2, he played the piano, imitating the notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother...