Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install six microphones and loudspeakers in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords; they had to be especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more nose-holding at the offer of nearly half of Ethiopia by His Majesty...
Hotel New Yorker (34th and 8th Ave.) where the Three Debutantes' sweet voices blend with the music of Hollywood's own Ted Fio Rito. Couvert Saturday $1.50. Dinner from...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...
Wilken. Schenley Distillers Corp. already has a cheap, fas selling straight whiskey in Old Quaker. Seeking a companion blended whiskey to popularize, Schenley consulted Harry E. Wilken, chief distiller for Joseph S. Finch & Co., a Schenley subsidiary at Schenley, Pa. Distiller Wilken produced a formula for a blend of four-year-old whiskey, 16-month whiskey, and neutral spirits (alcohol and water). Last week it was launched as The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey, along with an advertising campaign designed to endear Distiller Wilken & family to the whiskey-drinking public...
Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...