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Updated: June 16, 2025
But when appetites, needlessly inflamed by the lawless tippling, had at last been appeased and the lady had built her first cigarette I betrayed a willingness to hear more of the hinted connection between winter sports and Latin Quarters peopled by Bohemians, glass-blowing or otherwise.
But the highest part of glass-blowing lies in shaping graceful curves, and it is often in the smallest differences of measurement that the pieces made by Beroviero and Zorzi preserved intact to this day differ from similar things made by lesser artists. Yet in those little variations lies all the great secret that divides grace from awkwardness.
The adoption in all industrial countries of the 'English week', with its half-holiday so much coveted by the continental worker the establishment of a uniform working day the gradual introduction of the eight-hours shift into such 'continuous industries' as steel-smelting and glass-blowing an international agreement to eliminate the use of lead from many branches of the pottery industry and to limit and safeguard its use in all others, these were only some among the questions which study and investigation and discussion had brought to a stage at which the Association could look upon them as fit matter for potential international conventions in August 1914.
"It wasn't any use your learning German, was it, Philippe?" she said, then stood still in a frozen conjecture as to the use and goal of all that bright treasure in his mind his glass-blowing, his modelling, the cast head of a man she had found stamped with his initial, the things he had written and read, on slates, in books.
"Scares you, hey?" he said. "Well, I wasn't always a gopherman." "What were you before that?" "I was an inventor." "An inventor!" exclaimed Samuel. "Yes. Have you seen the glass-blowing machines here in town?" "No, I haven't." "Well, I invented three of them. And old Henry Lockman robbed me of them." "Robbed you!" gasped the boy amazed. "Yes," said the other.
Glass-blowing should be done in a good light, but preferably not in direct sunlight. The operator should be seated in a chair or on a stool of such a height that when working he may comfortably rest one or both elbows on the table.
The first thing he did on reaching his room was to smash his glass-blowing tools and throw them out of the window. He then sat down to figure out ways of spending his wife's money. The following day he called upon Miss Mydas, who was reading a novel and eating chocolate creams as happily as if she had never been ill in her life. "Where did you get the magic compound that cured me?" she asked.
Giovanni explained the object of his coming in a way intended to conciliate them to himself at Zorzi's expense. Their presence gave him courage. "This is Zorzi, the man without a name," he said, "who is come from Dalmatia to give us a lesson in glass-blowing." One of the men laughed, and the apprentices tittered. The others looked as if they did not understand.
The process of glass-blowing is represented in tombs at Beni Hassan of very great antiquity, and a specimen of Egyptian glass is in existence bearing the name of a Usurtasen, a king of the twelfth dynasty. Natrum, moreover, was an Egyptian product, well known from a remote date, being the chief ingredient used in the various processes of embalming.
The rings, bracelets, and other articles of jewelry that have been preserved show great facility on the part of the Egyptians in cutting the hardest stones. The skill displayed in the sculptures on the hard obelisks and granite monuments of Egypt was remarkable, since they were executed with hardened bronze. Glass-blowing was another art in which the Egyptians excelled.
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