Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...
Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...
...Oak, Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...
...Though Oak Street Beach is near the centre of Chicago's exclusive Gold Coast, it draws from the slums west of State Street untidy hordes of hoi polloi such as swarm on the public beaches of all big cities. Chicagoans guffawed last week to read in the smart New Yorker this advice to visitors to the World's Fair: ". . . You can go swimming any day in the middle of Chicago at Oak Street beach and be in the best possible company.'' The smartchart had been hoaxed by Mrs. Henry ("Hetty") Field, socialite society reporter for Hearst...