Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience. Their remarkable success in so doing reveals much ingenuity, talent and plain hard work. Ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the stage and effectiveness of the setting designed by Art Director John Holabird:--a setting of heavy dark drapes of stiff Victorian furniture and antique silver, which adds much to the impressive atmosphere of the production. Talent and hard work alike show in the efforts of the entire cast. Particularly outstanding are Florence Brown in her aristocratic and foreboding characterization of the Dowager Lady Monchensey; and William Manson in his own convincing interpretation of the conscience-tortured Lord...
...tirade against Vollard or less gens de commerce." Contrast this with a newspaper account of the exhibition and opening. "Pots of yellow and white chrysanthemum lent a festive note, and the guests were served punch and hot bouillon with lrtiny sandwiches. . . Mrs. Wore her coronation gown of blue and silver brocade with bands of rhinestones, and was trying to discern which was the woman and which the hat in the painting entitled. "Woman With a Hat." (And Rouault, I say, is an artist of genius...
President Cárdenas had several reasons for changing his mind. In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...
Tiffany also has a factory (in Newark, N. J.), shapes its own articles of gold, silver and bronze, engraves invitations, calling cards, etc. During the Civil War the plant turned out ''miscellaneous military supplies" for the Union (Tiffany policy permits no details). In World War I it made surgical instruments. Tiffany also makes jewelers' trade rules, helped introduce to the U. S. the English standard of sterling silver 925/1000 fine...
...Lord and Lady and their six assorted offspring are full of charades, false whiskers and profound contempt for rich Uncle Gabriel.Touched for another loan, Uncle G. comes to call, bringing his wife, regarded by the Lampreys as mad if not actually a witch. Uncle G. expires with a silver-plated meat skewer in his eye; Detective-Inspector Alleyn puts them all through the hoops. Delightful story...