Word: onionskin
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...long run. Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps). But first prize went to a crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle, a powerful magnifier of a series of chemical formulas...
...right flank rode Edgar Faure, the slick-as-onionskin politician who precipitated the snap elections, and Antoine Pinay, the slow and steady little tanner from St.Chamond. They led a relatively smooth-working alliance of independents, farmers, other conservatives and Catholic M.R.P.s...
Intended, in part, as a parable on the vanity of human wishes, Cotterell's anatomy of melancholy goes only onionskin-deep. His American publishers hail him as the British John P. Marquand. It's too early for that comparison, but Cotterell is working the same kind of street and keeping a lot of Englishmen reading...
...perhaps 1,000 which Budenz, as the Worker's managing editor, had to keep in his head because to print them would risk disclosure. They were not "small fry" but "large-sized" individuals whom the Worker was to treat with respect. Politburo instructions were issued on onionskin documents "so secret that we were instructed not to burn them, but to tear them in small pieces and destroy them through the toilet." In these documents, "L or XL in Far Eastern affairs referred to Mr. Lattimore. I was so advised by Jack Stachel...
Second, he reminded me that as an "old collaborator of the New York Times" (as well as of a dozen other papers and agencies to whom he supplied the same semilegible onionskin handouts at $50 monthly), he would of course be entitled to a healthy severance allowance. I suggested that...