Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
...with an 8-year-old child, Eileen is now married to her London agent. She first won notice in England with her records; but the English really warmed up to her when she made wartime tours. Now her records (for English Decca and English Columbia) are snapped up as fast as she makes them...
Radio, once it grew up a little, scampered out of the kitchen as fast as it could. Television, being at the beginner's level, still spends a lot of its time in the kitchen. Most TV recipe shows are as flat as stale beer, but one stands out from the rest like a glistening grape in a flavorless aspic...
...only pair of shoes to the village cobbler for re-soling. While he waited, barefoot, the cobbler fashioned a crude brush to varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad...
...Invention. For fast measurement, Booth worked out a system of eight mirrors to reflect all sides of the customer. By focusing the camera on a panel of four mirrors, he was able to get four reflected views on one film: front, rear, side and one from directly overhead. The film is projected on a screen, half lifesize. Tailors read the measurements from the calibrated screen. The measurements are then fed into another Booth invention: the Photo-Metric calculator...