Word: woodworking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed by the bandit's aide-de-camp (Leo McKern), who keeps tumbling upon them via doors and portholes and through the woodwork...
...along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...
...Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven copper finials designed by architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Anonymous...
High Epoch. Louis XIII furniture was modern in its day; it marked the point when hand-carved Renaissance woodwork gave way to all the sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish...
...with an air of urbanity and $30 as initiation fee, payable at the door. Its 10,000 members now include the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Winston Churchill, the Sheik of Kuwait and Cary Grant. The place exudes an atmosphere of luxury, with its heavy carpets, dark brocades and carved woodwork...