Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having in this way operated on the courts, they returned to the Common Room, where they attacked a glass chandelier with beer cans. Finding the broken glass pretty cumbersome on the wooden floor, they ground it in with their heels...
German, British and U. S. firms are currently engaged in an active struggle for U. S. sales of the best substitute for glass, in eyeglasses, binoculars, cameras and magnifying glasses, developed since Venetians invented spectacles in the 13th Century. Roehm & Haas Co. makes Plexigum, Plexiglas, Acryloid and Acrysol in Philadelphia; Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. sells Diakon and Perspex from its Manhattan office; Du Pont Viscaloid Co. makes Pontalite (TIME, Sept. 21, Dec. 28) and Lucite at Kearny...
...different patented processes, with a substance called methyl methacrylate. This can be molded into lenses, rods, sheets or odd shapes. It is transparent to ultraviolet light as well as to the whole visible spectrum. It is lightweight, slightly flexible, can endure pounding, resists corrosion. It is softer than glass and scratches easily. But it can be repolished to its original brilliancy and translucency...
...Chelsea figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed...
...wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows have no glass, so that customers can grab what they want...