Word: wrapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chucho used to wrap his students' work in Chinese paper. He began to make careless doodles on the wrappers. These attracted the attention of Diego and Frida Rivera, who often liked the doodles on the wrapping better than the artistry inside. So Chucho tried marketing them, at 5 pesos ($1) apiece. Today Reyes' swooshing pictures bring 50 to 80 pesos in Mexico, as high as $50 in Manhattan. Chucho sometimes reinforces his doodling with paint splashes, animal footprints or droppings from his two pet doves...
...wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite shocking to the casual visitor...
...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
Lewis Carroll drove Macmillan's crazy with suggestions. He urged them to use gold type. He sent them a huge diagram illustrating the "correct" way to wrap and tie parcels. He liked his books to appear in different formats-50 copies in a red binding, 20 in green, 20 in blue, two in vellum, one with primrose edges, one with a piece of mirror set in the cover. He also conducted some inside operations: "In thousands of copies of his books he had inserted . . . a 'Caution' in which he had disavowed authorship of a story . . . published...
Stiff knee? Arthritis? Get a surgeon to open you up and wrap the joints in cellophane. That is just what they're doing at California's Long Beach Naval Hospital. A surgeon there, Lieut. Commander Duncan Clark McKeever, reported last week that he had loosened up some 20 stiff joints with cellophane surgery...