Word: varnishers
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...husky and confidential, in public debate it was as penetrating, resonant and hard to shut off as the foghorn at Montauk Light. He had the bearing of a beefy Roman emperor, a lobster-red face and white hair which he wore reached. He thought Greenpernt-its lumber yards, varnish factories, dreary flats and all-was the "garden spot of the universe" and defied the world to find "a more moral race of people" than its citizens...
...when he was seven, Max Band took his only pair of shoes to the village cobbler for re-soling. While he waited, barefoot, the cobbler fashioned a crude brush to varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
Slaker. In Elmira, N.Y., thirsty Merrill E. Whiting looked around the house for something to drink, found, downed -and survived - a mixture of turpentine, varnish remover, lighter fluid, camphor, shaving lotion...
...last big restoration of this masterpiece, which was painted in 1642, was done in 1758 by the restorer, Jan van Dijk, and in the nearly two centuries which have elapsed since that time, the picture has been covered with different layers of oil, varnish and balsam, mixed with dust. These are the layers which have been removed...