Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next major war, if there is one, will be far less destructive than the World War. It will be waged at a lower cost, primarily because chemicals, which are cheaper than the traditional type of ammunition, will be the principal weapons...
Meantime Baiata was having trouble with the second $25,000 instalment. A onetime broker's clerk who was in desperate need of a new set of lower false teeth was outfitted from Boston Dentists and set up as W. W. Ehlers & Co., Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife...
Julia was the only child of very ordinary lower-middle-class London parents, but she herself was unusual: she had a consuming interest in Life. Though she was not always pretty, people noticed her. At school she was the most popular girl. As apprentice in a socialite dress shop she learned fast, soon became indispensable. The War brought her a young lover, then took him away before she could find out what love meant. So she married an importunate widower in uniform, and discovered that her husband was a mindless, exacting body. By the time she met Leonard, a mechanic...
...wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever as hell but so innocent. Tactful, charming, ingratiating. Urbane grin, fine stage presence. A grand...
...short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings to the coat, nor slashed sleeves. Shoes...