Word: enamelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hung a green flag with a green star in a white square in the Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...
Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
Last week Lucien Demotte, son of the late dealer, announced that other experts had called the enamel statuette genuine, and that the Dreicer estate had accordingly paid in full a sum of approximately...
...President Coolidge executed an order raising the tariff on sodium silicofluoride from 25% of its foreign value to 25% of its market value in the U. S. The chemical is used for acid rinses in laundries and for manufacturing enamel ware and opalescent glass. The U. S. consumption is some 5,000,000 lbs. per annum, of which about half is imported, mainly from Denmark...
...last week-that the Right Reverend John J. Dunn, bishop auxiliary vicar general of the archdiocese of New York had just departed for the antipodes, bearing a book containing 72 pages of illumined vellum, bound in white calf with a raised chalice of gold cunningly repousse, jeweled in French enamel and surmounted by a Host in white enamel. Inscribed on the vellum leaves were "flowers," the record of 22,145,089,361 acts of devotion-masses said, holy and spiritual communions, benedictions, "little offices" and ejaculations. The "flowers" made up a spiritual bouquet, like the one offered to the Pope...