Word: varnished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...
...Bennett, as its next president. He succeeds Big Businessman Morris Sayre, president of Corn Products Refining Co. A friendly, easy-talking man of 50, Bennett began learning about business early. During high school and college he worked summers in his father's Salt Lake City paint and varnish company. He likes to quote his father's credo: "No transaction of any kind is any good unless both sides profit from...
When the lights dimmed in Jordan Hall Friday night and the audience quilted down, the butt end of a guitar came out slowly through the curtain, its varnish glittering, followed by the arm, shoulder and figure of Josh White. And so it went throughout the evening--the guitar and music came first and Josh, the person, appeared only when the music stopped, to say a word or two or wipe his lips. With each song, the chords would sound first, loud and vigorous; then the words would rush in between the chords, pushed forward by the tapping of White...
...Romantic? (Paramount) leans heavily, for inspiration, on such Broadway musicomedies as Oklahoma! and Carousel. The idea is to give the wholesome nostalgias of small-town U.S. life a coat of sophisticated varnish and, if possible, a new lungful of life. As it turns out, the picture smells more of varnish than of fresh...
Scrubbed Paintings. The 144 Davids on exhibition in Paris last week had been gathered from all over France, from Belgium, and Manhattan. To prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...