Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many parts of the world, the executioners' business is booming, but not in Germany. Since Hitler's fall, there has been a sharp recession in the head-chopping line; Gustav Voelpel, Berlin's executioner, has had only 30 calls to the block since the war. "At 1,000 marks a head," he says, "I can scarcely make both ends meet." Hard-pressed, Gustav decided that what he needed was a sideline to supplement his income. He apparently found one. Last week, obligingly wearing his formal professional attire for the benefit of photographers (see cut) Gustav appeared...
...vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
Gumdrop Remembrance. Actually, frightful was the word for most of it, and the worst pieces were generally the ones that relied on ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples...
Most meteorologists believe that the weather is a product of the workings of the earth's atmospheric temperatures and pressures and its rotation. Abbot, while head of the Smithsonian Institution's -As-trophysical Observatory (1906-27) and then as the institution's secretary, got the idea that the weather on earth also reflects what is happening on the sun. Since his retirement in 1944, he has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
...Cool Fourth. This year the Abbot forecast was taken out and dusted off. Dr. Loyal B. Aldrich, now head of the Observatory, reported: "On.48 occasions, warmer dates occurred between the dates specified, and . . . the mean excess found thus...