Word: floss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magician pulls a white rabbit out of a silk hat, so the Fine Arts Theatre seems to pull consistently entertaining pictures out of thin air. "Mill on the Floss" is undoubtedly one of the funniest pictures of the year. It is all the funnier because it sets out to be a soul-searing tragedy of Sophocletian dimensions...
...favorite creation at the recent Schiaparelli winter opening was a black cocktail dress with shortish skirt, black rose-shaped buttons, a high V neck and lips of bright red floss embroidered on the pockets of the short jacket. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, leader of London's cafe set and onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...
...abrupt, especially with slow students. But with his associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph...
...discovering Europe together. But Vance turned out to be unexpectedly impressionable. New people and places, if they did not upset him, influenced him too much. Soon Halo found herself neglected, left alone while Vance went off on expeditions with friends or to parties where she was not invited. When Floss Delaney, Vance's boyhood love, drifted across their scene, Vance went after her like a helpless dog. Both Halo and Vance had bad times: he left her so often and so long that finally she was afraid he had gone for good. But at last, safely back...
...ambition" said Fred Allen, one of the three leading stars in "Three's a Crowd," is to see two dwarfs having a tug-of-war with a piece of dental floss." When asked to explain this statement Mr. Allen merely shrugged and said, "you asked the question: and there is a straight and honest answer, what mere do you want...