Word: layered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave the blushing bride $25,750 worth of prizes and "art fellowships." Served up in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design, "Paintings of the Year" (267 of the 5,034 entries) was a better show than its two Pepsi-Cola predecessors, but it was nevertheless a massive layer cake of second-rate work. On top lay a thin icing of successful...
Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...
...locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under the spring sun. At night the invaders ceased their rustling and grating, huddled in great clumps on whitewashed walls; in some villages they blanketed every house and path with a layer three to four inches thick...
After an eruption has released the pressure, the top layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...
Lionel Barrymore, after acting it for years, hit 68, and Hollywood hit him with a set of monkeyshines worth 70 (see cut). It was a three-layer celebration: 68 years in the world at large, 50 in the theater, 30 in Hollywood...