Word: fash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that Chandler told him he would make a great Marlowe. What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show is not quite so certain. On the picture tube his man lives a little too high, operates with a little too much fash. The original would have looked at the posh bachelor apartment, the white convertible, the sharp wardrobe, and bet the lonely fin in his pocket that this guy was on the take from some wrongos...
...First Eleven. Once chinchilla was a prized fur, adorning the robes of kings and potentates. Annual world sales were as high as 78,000 skins in 1900. But gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated...
...father came from Mexico, where his forebears had been Spanish conquistadors, established in New York a prosperous importing firm, and married Elizabeth Fash, an American of old Dutch stock. Their son Harold was sent to public school in Brooklyn, then to a small private school on the Hudson, and thence to Princeton, from which he graduated in 1909. He took his law degree at Columbia...
...with an oscillograph. When the two-way fish swam near, a series of regular electrial pulses showed on the oscillograph een. Then Lissmann dipped ends of a copper wire into .the aquarium. The little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...