Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, the body of Earl Kitchener with London morticians. Prime Minister Baldwin received a letter from Mr. Power-previously released to the press at space rates- inviting His Majesty's Government to send experts to identify the body. Then suddenly Mr. Power effaced himself, retired into hiding, lay low. When eminent pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury and London Coroner Ingleby Oddie finally took it upon themselves to open the casket, they found it filled with clods of earth, hunks...
...Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King...
...Cartoonist Barton and his camera into the Festspielhaus where never a cinema camera had clicked before. Mr. Gest succeeded. Max Reinhardt threw up his hands: "There is no stopping you Americans!" Max Reinhardt posed. Flickering light rays imposed upon the film the likeness of a curly haired German Jew, low of collar, loose of tie-seemingly no great one. Yet at Max Reinhardt's beck there had come to Salzburg not only a world of celebrities but the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Male Choral Society, the famed Oscar Ziegler Rose Quartet, and a trainload of minor operatic...
...instincts. He offered the experiment as proof and correction of certain Freudian doctrines. Huxley. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College, London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio...
...This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first water. How long these stones would stay purified, Dr. Field could not say. But they had not reverted in four years time; perhaps they would never revert. Big Manhattan jewelry houses took notice...