Word: varnished
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...mealymouthed. He dares to state his honest opinions without varnish or camouflage...
...time restoring and cleaning has been a matter of the greatest secrecy and not infrequently a matter of disaster. The Academy hopes to make it an international study, thus protecting museums and private owners of the treasures of the past. Whereas the Louvre has been overcautious, for years allowing varnish to darken her priceless paintings, Germany and Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing to a state of startling newborn brilliance. In the U. S., the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard has recently been concerned with this problem. Under Director Edward W. Forbes it has been carrying...
...made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held by the practitioners and fanciers of high-brow music, and pronounced jazz to be serious art, "the only true American musical art." Many exponents of jazz put on a varnish of this same opinion, but Whiteman expressed it with a peculiar fervency. He has been schooled as-an orthodox musician and presumably desires the reverence in which orthodox musicians are held and hold themselves...
...picture came from the Simon collection in Berlin and is said to have belonged formerly to the Earl of Carlyle. It is published on page 38 in Kiassiker der Kunst, but at the time of publication was suffering from a darkened varnish which has since been cleaned...
...flames rose highest in the southern part of the plant, where they ate their way into the heart of a large storage lumber yard. Some of the 12-foot piles were soaked with paint and varnish, so that firemen were still hosing the embers at 2 o'clock...