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...mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...
...brightly colored drinking fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid-8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue and white enamel finish. There was a high spout for adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them...
...past failures did not discourage Captain Richard Michael Clinton Codner of the Royal Artillery, a young (23) and bronzed Oxford undergraduate with a mop of black hair and a sensitive, mischievous face. Around the camp he was known as "a classical fellow, always reading Latin and he could spout it by the yard...
There is a certain fascination to a Chemistry Laboratory, a fascination that lies hidden somewhere in the rows of bottles, the smells, and the steam baths that gurgle and spout like coffee percolators. Students in rugged Chemistry 20 must sense it presence, for they are willing to trade a normal outdoor life for one of box lunches and laboratory pallor. They say that a good deal of this fascination is because of their teacher, Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emory Professor of Chemistry...
...adventure tales. He could turn out a 610-page thriller in 62 hours-complete with such immortal lines as: "[Isabella] arose from the couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses...