Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring such a host of permanent residents to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, has cost millions of dollars. There the "objects of art" in paint, marble, bronze, tapestry, are mostly by world-famed masters. Their owners go off summering comforted by thought of the heavy insurance policies, faithful watchmen, alert elevator attendants provided to protect the expensive stay-behinds...
...About two years ago I got tired of them and so I got a can of good lead paint . . . and put a nice coat of paint all over the walls...
Barnacles, woe of ship masters who know how seriously the clinging crustacea retard ship speed, dislike a paint containing a combination of copper and mercury, explained Dr. Anthony Moultrie Muckenfuss, research chemist of Perth Amboy, N. J. All hulls could be painted with the material...
...Such an article Mr. Kent contributed, in August, 1924, to the American Mercury, nor is there any evidence that his point of view has shifted since that date. Entitled "Mr. Coolidge," the article began by maintaining that Washington correspondents, awed by the presidential office, eager for presidential esteem, always paint a President "a little prettier than...
...purple and blue landscapes then for they served only to remind him that his talent was lodged with him useless. But he bore in mind the image of Daniel Vierge, the Spanish painter, who refused to be cheated of his brush by a failing hand. Vierge had learned to paint over again with his left hand. Mr. Lawrence determined to do likewise. This was no easy task for a man past youth to set himself. Yet it was accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper...