Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp morning of the first day of autumn, 20 years after its members entered the trenches in France. When the parade started, 1,000,000 New Yorkers were lined up along the sidewalks to watch it. Shops along Fifth Avenue, closed for the day, had boarded up their plate-glass show windows. Traffic for blocks on both sides of the city's central artery was ordered to detour. Some pedestrians who wanted to cross town had to hang to mail trucks...
...cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three Hispanos are fitted on each side with blue glass, concealing the occupants and making it a guess in which car is the Dictator. There is no rear window and the construction suggests that a shot fired after one of these cars would simply bounce...
Sweden is known to contemporary artists principally for its sculpture, which Carl Milles has made world-famed, and for the beautiful work in glass, silver and furniture fostered by the Swedish Association of Arts & Crafts under renowned Dr. Gregor Paulsson and his successor, Dr. Ake Stavenow. Last spring a committee, including the Worcester Museum's rotund Director Francis Henry Taylor and Russell A. Plimpton, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, decided to pass up sculpture, try to assemble for U. S. showings a selection of old, not new, Swedish handicrafts. Bright, tactful Mr. Plimpton spent the summer...
Spear fishing is bubbles of fun. One Sunday he donned a glass mask, grasped a slingshot affair with a two-foot spear as the missile, and paddled about the surface. Where he was swimming, the water was clear and the reefs inhabited by fish such as you see in Nassau through a glass bottom boat. The trick is to shoot the spear when you espy a large game. Unhappily, he mistook his right foot for an unfamiliar species the first time he shot, and he was reluctant to try again...
Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...