Word: lampe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meadow any more, nor is the young woman of today buying art just to match the draperies." As a member of a cooperative formed by 75 local artists, I had a prospective "young woman" purchaser urge me to paint a picture that would complement the color of a lamp shade in her living room. She described the size it should be, showed me where it would hang, but was totally disinterested in subject matter...
...samples of new cigarette blends for informal taste polls. His other pleasures are simple, though his tastes are rich. He dresses expensively, favors dark blue suits and blue or grey silk ties that blend well with his heavy-lidded, blue-grey eyes, tans his skin under a sun lamp, plays up his graceful hands by wearing transparent nail polish, a star sapphire ring, a thick gold watchband, huge cuff links...
...Patron Saint of TV-a lamp combined with a ceramic statue of St. Clare of Assisi. declared patroness of television last year by Pope Pius XII-"a welcome source of inspiration . . . just right for the top of your TV set." Price...
...bloody fact, to a corps of Hollywood professionals who have unquestionably seen more scenes of combat in movie houses than in any actual theater of war. The big push in this picture, even though it is carefully filled out with official military footage, smells unmistakably of the klieg lamp, and the episodes on the home front, for all the respect they show to the times, might as well have taken place, not in the Roosevelt era but during the Nebuchadnezzar administration...
...lighting industry the newest fad is the old gas lamp. The fad got going last year when Whitt Stephens, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president and board chairman, offered to install gas lamps free for the entire city of Little Rock, Ark. as a stunt to publicize gas. The city could not legally accept, but Stephens had six gaslights put up near city hall. So many householders liked their soft glow that Stephens decided to mass-produce the lamps through the company's subsidiary, Arkla Air Conditioning Corp...