Word: varnished
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...article about Dr. Stephens and Mercy Hospital will draw hundreds of letters from protesting readers who will coat the facts with a varnish of personal sentiment...
Only Yearbook Publications and the Liberal Union have moved into their new quarters so far. The remaining rooms are so much fresh paint and varnish...
Wrote observant Jane: "Women, they say, will always give a varnish of duty to their inclinations. I wonder whether men are any better in always giving to their disinclinations a varnish of justice...
...look the gift horse in the mouth. With tiny cotton swabs dipped in turpentine and acetone, not much bigger than those used to clean a baby's nose, he patiently and gingerly removed from its 60 square feet of canvas alternating films of candle soot and brown varnish. The job took 18 months...
...Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered...