Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ankle-length skirts may monopolize this side of the Atlantic, But Britain is parading a New Look of a different sort. It's called the James Mason Look at features depression, moodiness and a general lack of bright-eyed outlooks. "The Upturned Glass" is overflowing with this Look, both in the person of Mason and in its somber story, lowkey lighting and pessimistic characters. Yet aside form its dampening emotional effect, it ties all these ingredients together nicely and if you're not too fashion-conscious, the New Look will do as well...
Last night the harassed "fools" torture continued at their Bow Street emporium, from whence issued shouts and sounds of shattering glass...
...comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...
...questions about themselves and their islands, the Tristanites were shyly candid. "We'm poor but werry 'appy," said Glass. But, he admitted, "Us gets tired...
...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...