Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...
Last week 25,000 delegates and visitors gathered in Birmingham for the 23rd quadrennial conference of the Southern church. With unification the first item on the agenda, many a delegate-including Senator Carter Glass-sounded off on the Negro issue. But they could not make the tar baby stick. The merger was adopted...
...minute after the official field, but gave up that practice when he found that his friends couldn't find him among the crowd of also-rans. This year he gave himself a good head start. At the end of last week's race, refreshing himself with a glass of water, Peter Foley chuckled: "Not the least bit winded-not a bit. Just a sore toe and a sunburn...
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass...
Last week Carleton Beals told the story of the first ten years of his journalistic career. Main exhibits in Glass Houses are not Latin American politics, but the little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot...