Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prediction expiring, unfulfilled: Admiral William Halsey's, that 1943 would bring "complete, absolute defeat for the Axis." Said Admiral Halsey: "I refuse to gaze into the crystal ball any more. . . . Only God knows...
...know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back of her hand against her mouth, stepped blindly into the gallery well and crashed through the crystal chains of the chandelier to her death on the floor of the hall...
Neither Prexy Phoenix nor anyone else seems much concerned over the prospect of television. But in the crystal ball Harvard men '58, can be seen calling up for a date with that pretty blonde who's turning the records...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...over the star-sprinkled swells of the upper Great Lakes. They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets. The craft drifted silently to a stop in the icy, crystal water...