Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs came in from the southeast over Diamond Head. They could have been U.S. planes shuttling westward from San Diego. Civilians' estimates of their numbers ranged from 50 to 150. They whined over Waikiki, over the candy-pink bulk of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Some were (it was reported) big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits. All that they met as they came in was a tiny private plane in which Lawyer Ray Buduick was out for a Sunday morning ride. They riddled the lawyer's plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in making...
Opening. First night, the glowing gold curtain went up as usual on the audience which is the last glittering show in western civilization. In the Diamond Horseshoe, niftiest railbirds were Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Leonora Warner (see cut). No one paid much attention to the opera, which was one of the lasting achievements of western civilization-the tender, comic Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus...
...France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained a brilliant salon in Paris frequented by Anatole France, Debussy, Rodin, Mallarme, many another famed artist. She came to the U.S. in 1912, toured...
Married. North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57; and Evalyn Washington McLean, 19, daughter of wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Washington. The bride's mother is owner of the Hope Diamond, traditional "bad luck" stone...
Germany's contribution to powder metallurgy came about 1916 when the great Krupp Works learned from the electrical industry to press and sinter mixtures of tungsten carbide with cobalt into the hardest cutting compound known, began producing it commercially. These hard-cemented carbides have a hardness between diamond and sapphire. They are often shaped into cutting tools by another product of powder metallurgy: a solidified mixture of diamond dust and bronze powder. They work without softening at high, cherry-red heats while cutting ordinary armament steels two to ten times faster than cutting tools made of the toughest high...