Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...
...Americans. Here was a chance to make a cinema that would be as obnoxious as Abie's Irish Rose (play). But Producer Carl Laemmle forfeited the chance by the dexterity of his workmanship. He depicts Jews, Irishmen, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Russians mingling in a U. S. city in a plausible manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents...
...right of the court as one enters, and at the end of the west arcade, is the so-called Great Hall, a full two stories in height, and lighted on the eastern side by three large windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west...
...worthy tribute to the memory of a great man. The CRIMSON joins with the admirers of Mr. Eliot and of Mr. James in looking forward to this biography which will have besides the blessing of one man's thorough knowledge of another the additional tribute of fine workmanship...
...return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening. For these four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still the work of a hand that has never found a rival. Though it is rumored that Mischa Elman has discovered a young Russian exile in Oregon whose work is unique for its artistry, and musicians are hoping that he will in time become the 20th...