Word: eyeglasses
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...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
Thus scalded on its way out of the frying pan, Bausch & Lomb promptly fell into the fire. With 13 other U. S. makers of eyeglasses, five wholesalers, three trade associations (virtually the entire U. S. optical industry), it was accused last week by the same Federal grand jury of another anti-trust law violation. With its fellow defendants, the Government claimed, B. & L. had conspired successfully for the last ten years to keep the cost of eyeglass frames and lenses unnecessarily high. Government example: spectacles which would bring a profit at $7.50 are sold at a fixed price...
...when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever...
...average American, the average Englishman seems affected, patronizing, humorless, impolite, and funny. To him also the Englishman wears spats and carries an eyeglass; to him also he is slim and neatly dressed; yet the American, unlike the German, is not impressed by these elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking...
...better airports. An escort of nine Army planes accompanied him on the flight which rounded out his second straight year of a flight-a-day. In thick weather and thin he carried on, had many a close call, always came through. His health improved, his million-dollar-a-year eyeglass business prospered. Last week he ended his fifth year of daily flying with an aerial tour of Kansas and Missouri accompanied by 20 civilian and military planes...