Word: curls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICA: A REAPPRAISAL-Harold E. Stearns-Hillman Curl ($3). Vociferously sunny testaments to the American way of life, by the famed longtime Paris expatriate, author of The Street I Know...
...magazines" produced by Miss Lowell and her childhood companions at the age of ten to fourteen. One of these, entitled the "Sevenels Gazette," was presented in handwriting, and contained a story, "The Bloody Hand," together with several advertisements, such as "Wanted! A Gentleman to clean knives, whose moustaches curl up not down, and who has no objection to being called Alphius...
...Small particles like dust, fortuitous aggregations of molecules and droplets of water tend to deflect short wave lengths of light which approximately "fit" them, while longer wave lengths curl around these small obstacles. Long infra-red rays go farther through fog than visible light and still longer radio waves can go through buildings. In the visible spectrum, blue light is shorter in wave length than red. In the case of the evening sun, the blue components are scattered in all directions, and this subtraction makes the sun look red. But the blue light is scattered again & again in the atmosphere...
...Hillman-Curl...
...afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought...