Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-week run of The Philadelphia Story. Alackaday. Neither g-u-t-s nor the services of Seamster Yves St. Laurent and a personal barber (Kenneth) could placate the picadors from the drama desk, who saw only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having a baby ("You wanted to have it over with"), but Husband Stanislas Radziwill refused to accept fatherhood. "I'm going back to London," he said with a shrug. "She can do what she wants...
...from Paris that were mated with members of the same species from Hamburg would not produce offspring. The reason for this sterility, he determined, was a difference in the cytoplasm (the protoplasm surrounding the cell nucleus) between the Paris and Hamburg strains of mosquitoes. Because of this difference, the egg cells of the females of one strain could not accept the sperm cells from males of the other strain, causing the female to lay infertile eggs. This Franco-German incompatibility was not unique. In succeeding years, Laven discovered 19 additional strains of common mosquitoes that could not produce offspring when...
...Ostrich Eggs & Vanilla Beans. When Founder Samuel Stillman Pierce opened his first store in Boston in 1831, he vowed: "I may not make money, but I shall make a reputation." He made both, partly by provisioning Yankee clipper ships for ocean voyages and partly by coddling his celebrity customers (among them: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster). In later years, the company hired horse-drawn sleighs to deliver groceries when snowstorms closed roads to auto traffic, and maintained a well-drilled corps of salesmen who would phone housewives at appointed hours. They not only suggested menus but answered such arcane questions...
...usermann sees no reason why his egg houses need nest in solitary splendor on the beach or perch on the edge of cliffs. For Paris he is just finishing an athletic club unlike anything ever seen before. On Spain's Costa Brava he is designing a whole resort town that will grow out of the rocks like a bulbous cactus. These days, Häusermann likes to recall that when he presented as a student project three great pyramidal structures honeycombed with individual oval living units, his professors objected that "Pretty soon the planet will be covered with nothing...
...confused with lysozyme, an enzyme found in egg white and tears...