Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farnsworth Room, dedicated to pleasing but not immediately purposeful reading, and where no studying is allowed, has been relighted during the summer. New cork flooring has been installed in the main Reading Room and today the last insect bookworms are being cleaned away by vacuum cleaners to make way for the flesh-and-blood ones, the students...
...inside the bottle is responsible for the sparkle of the wine. The skilled winemaker is faced with the problem of removing sediment from a bottle of wine without losing the sparkle. This is usually done by turning the bottle upside down, collecting the sediment on the face of the cork, freezing the wine in the neck of each bottle, removing the cork and the top lump of dirty ice. Mr. Moore performs this essential process mechanically. He drives two corks, connected by a three-inch chromium bar, into the bottle. He then places the bottle on a rack, turns...
...John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls...
...hatchet-work of primary politics, rugged, mercurial Tommy the Cork is the partner who is getting it done. (Shy, cool Partner Cohen jaunted to Europe last week.) Putting inde-goddam-pendent journalists up to playing his game is one of his methods. The journalistic team of Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen are Tom Corcoran's natural mouthpieces; his temperature and blood pressure are accurately reflected in what they have to say to their syndicate readers daily. This is not just because Allen is the Neanderthal type of Liberal and Pearson the parlor mauve type-a perfect team-but because...
...personality is the master key to the success and fame of Corcoran & Cohen. Historic is the White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier...