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Altogether, some 146 articles are made from the corn plant, including axle grease, face powder, shoe heels, cigaret holders, gunpowder, incense, phonograph records, shaving soap, shoe horns, varnish...
...originals. For those who have not read Mr. Galsworthy, and really are not just sure who he is, the picture may serve. Are Parents People? The week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability...
...little paint business was started in Manhattan. Today, Devoe & Reynolds, paint and varnish manufacturers, is still an active concern? perhaps the oldest commercial establishment in the city, and one of the five oldest concerns in the U. S. still actively engaged in business...
...Arizona, an expedition sent by Edward L. Doheny, oil man, found pictures of dinosaurs, American elephants, prehistoric deer and men, scratched in the "desert varnish" (black iron scale) on a vertical, red sandstone canon wall...
...equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,