Word: drier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casualties, but only one musician missed a plane, and he was delivered (to Athens) on a cargo plane in time to make the concert. Spare reeds and strings were plentiful; even the tympani player got around his problem of extremes of humidity by putting the drumheads under a hair drier when they loosened in damp climates and covering them with wet diapers when they got too tight in dry climates...
...cold eye on a man who moons for the time when a Dodge car ("if your family happened to own a Dodge") was the best there was, who recalls the wonderful sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply a brave, worried man who knows that boys...
...outdone, last summer Verve Records reorganized the group, which featured Roy Eldridge, and rerecorded most of the same tunes. The two records are fascinating to compare--O'Day's style has remained much the same but is now a little drier, and even a little surer and more free. Her accompanists also have more fun the second time around, as they recall the old days. The new record is as exciting as any modern item in the catalog. (Col. 753, Verve...
...dogs are tenderly bathed once a day in little bathtubs. Then they are dried in an automatic drier that looks like a washing machine. Their blood counts are taken daily, and any signs of distress are noted. If they get radiation sickness, however, no attempt is made to cure them...
...staggering. They open up a whole new field to aggressive advertising. For a certain consideration to the MTA, streetcar motormen could be instructed to stop each passenger as he pays his fare, sieze him by the lapels, and chant: "THROW AWAY YOUR DISH TOWELS! The Crossly Automatic Dishwasher-Drier Washes and Dries faster then any other Dishwasher," or some such maxim...