Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began organizing last winter under "a unified plan . . . in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover" (TIME, March 11), elected officers last week and chose a name. Henceforth they will be known as the Co-operative Committee for Prohibition Enforcement. Their chairman is a Kentucky varnish-maker...
...Their Majesties?or perhaps because of it?misguided subjects contrive to scratch initials and other devices on the Royal bodies surprisingly often. Policy seems to dictate that the Crown shall not proceed against such petty offenders. Every blemish is patiently and skillfully obliterated (with sandpaper and quick drying varnish) during the night after it is discovered...
Died. Benjamin Arrowsmith Hegeman, 68, Manhattan railroad magnate, manufacturer (railway appliances, varnish), onetime president of the American Railway Association; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
...Pigeon Hill in Rockport, Mass., there stands a house. In the house-very much in the house-are 60,000 newspapers. In fact, they are the house (except for a wooden framework). The walls are made out of newsprint, 215 sheets in thickness, waterproofed by varnish. Begun seven years ago, this four-room house was completed last week by Ellis F. Stenman & wife & daughter...