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...damage caused was considerable. The fierce heat cracked the window panes and blistered the woodwork. The furniture was hopelessly damaged, and the smoke stains and odor filled the whole building. As far as Lerner is concerned, however, the greatest loss is that of his new clothes and lecture notes...
...replace the old color chart, its 236 color plates showed houses, living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, etc. in coats of many colors. Each oversize plate was an extraordinarily clear and detailed color photograph of an actual paint job. With housewives able to see how colors look on wall and woodwork, Sherwin-Williams hoped to touch off a housepainting renaissance...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...
Pushing the three in front of him, he stepped into the street. No one was on the sidewalks but bullets began whanging at him from all around, shattering the bank's front windows, splintering the woodwork. Durand began shooting at random. Gawthrop slumped to the pavement, mortally...
...days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week he was asked if he regarded his woodwork as a hobby. "If it sells, it's not a hobby," said William Steig...