Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...have founded an open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead...
...Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...
...Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
Publisher Hearst, unscathed by the explosion, recalled reports of General Electric's new safe flashlamp, self-contained in a glass bulb (TIME, Aug. 13). A few minutes after returning to his hotel he issued telegraphic orders to all Hearst editors to "throw away all flashlight powder that is on hand to remove the temptation of using it." He ordered the new flashlamps and "candid cameras" (TIME, Feb. 17) for all Hearstpapers...
...recently because of 'ill health' was forced to retire because he was Harry Thawish. . . . What theatrical att'y has terpsichorines fired from shows when they do not go out with his 'particular' and 'eminent' friends? . . . Dunhill's wishes what Big Eye-Glass Man would pay his cigar bills? . . . What'll y'bet that Yolande Lossee of the Club Calais, and one of John W. Davis' nevviews ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul...