Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Weigl, said Marianne, ties a louse on a glass slide with a paper band, places it under a microscope. With a syringe and a glass tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife...
...hour week, general working conditions and other basic phases of the present agreement remained unchanged. The wage of pantry men, helpers and glass and silver women was also set at $18, making this the minimum wage for kitchen and Dining Hall workers. The contract called for a $3 raise for bus boys, giving them $30 a week. Other increase asked were in rough proportion to this...
Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass (Columbia Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A well-known, light, agreeable suite by the most successful of contemporary U. S. highbrow composers. U. S.-born Conductor Barlow makes his phonographic bow, does an excellent...
Miss Lofts goes out of her way to handicap her fifth novel. She prefaces it with an essay on style: "Style of writing," she says, "should be something of which the reader is supremely unconscious; it should be clear and neutral, like the glass of a shop window. And because one offers a study of people long dead is no reason why that glass should be the knobbly 'bottle' kind which hasty judgment might deem more seemly." Under close examination Miss Lofts's glass proves to be fairly clear plate, not too marred by fingerprints...
Logan Pearsall Smith's autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...