Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf awaiting...
King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
...Britain, television is older (regular telecasts were begun in 1936, abandoned during the war), smaller and-in some fields of programming-better than in the U.S. With only one TV station and some 85,000 sets, Britain is momentarily hamstrung by a shortage of the special glass needed for cathode tubes. British TV carries no advertisements and is dependent for revenue on government subsidies and an annual tax of ?2 on each set owner. Among the programs scheduled are Ascot races, plays such as King Lear (which ran over three hours and was given in two sections on consecutive evenings...
...studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...
Shortly before 5, an hour & a half late, a stumpy little figure in dove grey hat and black overcoat came through the frosted glass doors from the street. Flanked by his lawyer and RCA's David Sarnoff, J. Caesar Petrillo, boss of the union musicians, had arrived...