Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Entertainment Bureau, a division of the Student Employment Office in Weld Hall, farms out magicians, guitarists, pianists, bagpipers, glass blowers, dance orchestras, and experts on the Greek underground to clubs, churches, or schools in Greater Boston. There is no booking charge made to either employer or employee...
...feet below the surface, could be boarded by firemen. The wooden superstructure was gone, steel deck plates were buckled. From twisted davits hung fire-scarred metal lifeboats, looking like flimsy toys that had been smashed by an angry child. In a knee-deep litter of embers and melted glass, the firemen went to work with blowtorches, pike poles and shovels, to get to the charred bodies of those who had been burned or asphyxiated or trampled to death...
...sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise, she has developed a phenomenal memory for lyrics, spot commercials and program notes, because she is too nearsighted to read either sheet music or off-camera cards...
...About the House. In Yonkers, N.Y., police were looking for the thief who removed a pane of glass from Joseph J. Albaum's house, thoroughly rifled the place and carefully reputtied the glass when he left...
Interruption. In Seattle, Lloyd A. Mclsaac explained that he was just on his way to a repair shop when police arrested him for operating a car with defective brakes, headlights, window glass, horn, muffler and tires...