Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 20 days later, Paxton's party reached the first settlement in Ladakh Province, on the Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here...
...vague air of triangle is developed in the obvious ways. The singing is exploited by an interminable series of shots in which Douglas cracks various glass objects with his baritone fortissimo, and the final scene when he breaks up an opera by getting drunk on potions designed to calm him down before his entrance. This latter episode gets its effect by his drunken degradation--a type of humor that is not attractive. Finally there are several subplots to bolster the obvious inadequacies of the main story: Douglas is the proprietor of a failing wreckage business; his father...
...Chicago, Napoleon Bonaparte, 56, quit the Rock Island railroad maintenance crew after 29 years. A Chinese gentleman in Canton divorced all four of his wives for "differences of opinion." And a man in a Cleveland tavern got into an argument with the bartender over a glass of beer, so he went outside, drove his car through the plate glass window, and parked in front...
...walked out on an M-G-M writing job before his Broadway success, returned to Manhattan from a second stint in Hollywood. "I had a lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn't see how I could...
...injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...