Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another almost as severe. One resident of nearby Cavite died of heart-failure. Sixty-two were injured, some by falling power lines, some in stampedes out of crowded cinema theatres. When the lights were finally turned on again, the Escolta, Manila's main street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood...
...that instant there came the mounting whistling scream of a falling bomb and a blast of sound that smashed every window and almost every glass in the Cathay bar. Instantly another followed, landed full on the Palace hotel across the street. In the lobby of the Palace stood United Pressman John R. Morris. He wrote...
...Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail...
...Plaza, his portmanteau packed, his mourning doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
...Clinic has 15 floors, a carillon tower and imposing bronze doors. On the third floor is the room of the Board of Governors. Covering all the walls of that room are framed Mayo diplomas, certificates, awards and knighthoods conferred by governments and learned societies. Outside in a glass showcase are their many academic robes. Their favorites are the red ones of the University of Manchester, England...