Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tickets to a boxing match by guessing that Harvard would beat Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following...
...frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer Hoffman left the State...
Commentators noted a change in Cinemactress Bow: following the fad begun by Jean Harlow, she had dyed her hair "platinum" blonde...
...keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been used to run electro-turbines at Hartford and Schenectady (TIME, July 8, 1929). The world annually produces...
...face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum blonde." It also caused a major revival of the hair-bleaching industry. Jean Harlow has had a larger influence on the trade of beauticians and the habits of their customers than any other cinemactress in the last two years. Because its ivory-colored covering soils so easily, Jean Harlow washes...