Word: workmanship
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...Agreed that the U. S. S. Akron showed no poor workmanship or faulty materials...
...force of statement and finish of workmanship are not to be matched anywhere in present day caricature. . . . One wonders why this should be, and one wonders also if the showing of Nast's work in a museum may not key up our draughtsmen to bolder expression. It certainly will key up the collectors...
...Warburg '20, noted collector and connaisseur, has loaned three tapestries from the "Credo" series, of which only 15 items are known to be in existence, one in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. They date from the late Fifteenth Century, and are of the best type of Flemmish workmanship...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...
...Pagan Poem was played by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony last week, after Violinist Efrem Zimbalist had given a glowing performance of Brahms's D Major Concerto. Because Composer Loeffler is self-critical to the point of keeping finished work unpublished in his desk, because he scorns cheap workmanship and any form of self-exploitation, much of his music is comparatively unknown. Last week in Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted his Canticum Fratis Solis in addition to the Pagan Poem. Fortnight ago when the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated its new hall Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff chose Composer Loeffler to write the special...