Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander III, Czar of all the Russias, was conferring with his court jeweler, Peter Carl Fabergé, about what to give the Czarina for Easter. Fabergé proposed an egg-wjth a surprise inside it. "What will the surprise be?" asked the Czar. With all due respect, Fabergé refused...
...Easter time in 1884, the Czarina received what at first glance looked like an ordinary hen's egg, but the shell beneath its white enamel was of gold. Inside it was a golden yolk, and inside that a golden chick. In the chick's stomach was a model of the imperial crown, and inside the crown was a tiny ruby egg. It went over big. "Next Easter," the Czar informed Fabergé, "we'll be wanting another surprise...
...distinction of a pine paneled bar equipped with 72 beer steins, several Italian wine jugs, a pewter edged two litre drinking horn, and plenty of schnapps. Ernst recalls the old days in Bavaria when the children used barrel staves or the long slats from the tops of egg crates for skis...
...Manhattan apartment early one morning last week, Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy awoke with a start. As he flipped a bedside switch, soft indirect light spread over walls made of egg-crate fiber and over a group of improbable furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...
...could do to make it better-looking that I would take it for very little. But if you want me to redesign a sewing needle, I'd charge $100,000. After all, how can you improve a needle? It's like the perfect functional shape of an egg...