Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloud effects, mysterious lumps and sworls, curious beasts, grotesque faces, incised lines like vines and tendrils. Not a few were extremely effective. Outstanding fact about these colorful patterns was that they were produced not by brush or other tool but by the children's own chubby hands smearing liquid pigment on paper...
...pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
...owned by Herbert Owen of New Britain, Conn., had an enormous advantage of lightness. It weighed only .03 oz. Instead of Japanese tissue, its wing was made of "microfilm," a transparent, opalescent substance that looks something like Cellophane. It is made from a nitrocellulose fluid base (e.g. collodion, bronzing liquid, etc.) that-floats on' water in a gossamer layer, dries in a sheet about one-eighth the weight of superfine tissue. The winner was awarded the Sportsman Pilot Cup, originally posted by Sportsman Pilot (monthly) for a race which did not come off in the National Air Races last...
...with disappointing results. The twelve regional banks technically open. Their lobbies are filled with job-seekers and home-owners looking for loans. The loan seekers are advised to go to private mortgage concerns for relief. Chairman Fort optimistically announces that every good mortgage in the U. S. now becomes liquid and that after Nov. 1, all foreclosures should cease...
...word about fortifying drinks. He wrote to the San Francisco Examiner recommending that fine old U.S. fortifier, Tom & Jerry. The Examiner front-paged Dr. Geiger's recipe: "Whole egg and sugar, thoroughly beaten, about one tablespoon of sugar being used for each egg, a certain liquid added to the proper consistency and taste and then hot milk added to the mixture with nutmeg.*. . . The particular food product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass...