Word: varnished
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...with loan exhibitions of modern paintings for which they pay the artists nothing. The average artist of any reputation generally has six or eight pictures making the museum rounds, seldom sells any. At the end of the season he is put to considerable expense fixing broken frames, patching cracked varnish, and otherwise repairing minor damages to his work...
...though a poorly kept one. Long before the official cablegram arrived from Pittsburgh, friends rushed into Madrid's swank new Café Fuentelarreyna to blurt the news to Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes: The picture he had finished so quickly that he had had no time to varnish it before shipping it to the U. S. last August, had just won the $1,000 first prize at the 33rd Carnegie International show. It was no less exciting news in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie directors have long had a fondness for modern Spanish painting, have seldom been able to find...
...shadchen himself, Rabbi Wolf explained why a marriage broker is useful: ''When you meet a girl on the street or in the subway, all you see is the veneer, the varnish. Now the marriage broker investigates. He looks up the money part of the woman and investigates the man's past, his relations and his standing. The proper way to size up a person is to see if he has business with a bank. If he doesn't deal with a bank, he's no good...
...Quartermaster, and a dozen others. Mr. LaFarge has portayed all these swiftly and surely. But towering above them all is Jeremiah Disney, nephew of the mate, son of the Chog's Cove pastor. The story of Jeremiah Disney's moral disintegration, the picture of his unbalanced mind with its varnish of biblical Puritanism, is, in this reviewer's opinion, Mr. LaFarge's finest piece of work. It is marred only by a melodramatic and unnecessary close...
...majority of the teams which have won the A.A.U. basketball tournament have been composed of players developed by Dr. Allen- (The Blue Diamonds-Cooke's Paint & Varnish Co. team...