Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...
Price of a New York Stock Exchange seat is like Jack-the-Giant-Killer's bean stalk-steadily it climbs higher. Last week it was, for a few hours, $215,000. Then William H. Bade, 29, onetime Princeton baseball captain, paint dealer, appeared; paid $217,000. Stockbroker Edward A. Pierce who sold that seat must pay approximately $4,000 New York State tax, about $20,000 Federal...
...napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right and be right...
...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...