Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provider-Old Jacob, and the brilliant, unstable Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, better known as Ikhnaton, the great liberalizer of Egyptian religion and art, one of the precursors of Christianity, most readers will feel that Mann has made the past's deep waters, at least for a dizzying way down, crystal clear...
Senator Connally (growing impatient); "In looking into his private crystal ball, the Senator may be able to see the solutions to all problems. . . . The Senator from Texas does not profess any such vision or any such knowledge. . . . Mr. President, this question is greater than political parties. It is greater than the Democratic Party. It is greater than even the Republican Party. This is a great world problem and I do not wish to treat it from a 'peanut' attitude. . . . There ought to be an American attitude...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
While we're getting hot tips from our crystal ball, we wager 20 May as the official date for Juniors to start moving off the station or to McCulloch Hall, with such moves to take place before the 23rd...
Unfinished Work. Her short stories, like her experimental novels, were an other matter. They were like fragments of meteorites over which geologists might puzzle: containing traces of unquestionably valuable metal, with delicate markings and crystal patterns of great beauty and rarity, but of as little appreciable utility as most meteorites. Virginia Woolf wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected...