Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth a thrip." Your footnote (TIME, Nov. 6) on Mr. Glass's rating of Hitler's promises explains thrip as being British slang for the threepenny piece...
...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...
After 18 years in a Swiss insane asylum, Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in 1937 began to show marked improvement, was released last fall, is now living in Adelboden, Switzerland. Last week pictures reached the U. S. showing Nijinsky once more in the normal world: accepting a glass of wine from his wife, Romola, looking speculatively at a bin of vegetables in a Swiss market place, in concerned conversation with friends, smiling warmly (for months at a time he never smiled...
...Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...