Word: spigots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the bar, clad in white jacket, was the creator of both: versatile, temperamental Artist Author Inventor John Vassos. The room he had created was more original than the spigots. The upper parts were of aluminum; the lower painted grey. Grey predominated, even in the hangings and the seat coverings of the modern furniture, although some of these were Chinese rose or black. Only other color: green spigot handles. One of the critics called the designs "irrational versatility...
...Honor to Unhappy Courage" represents a large oak plank on the seashore through which has been thrust a beautifully painted silver spigot. Several auger holes are cut through the plank, and draped over one corner is a graceful wreath of morning glories...
...unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted...
...Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...