Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walking through Manhattan's Grand Central Station several months ago, platinum-haired Publisher Marshall Field paused in a drugstore, riffled through a 25? paperbound book. It was love at first sight. The book's format, price and easy proximity to masses of people pleased Publisher Field, just as it had pleased millions of other Americans. Enamored as he now is of the word business (the Chicago Sun, New York City's PM, Cincinnati's radio station WSAI). Publisher Field decided to invade book publishing...
...most remarkable cyclist yet seen was a girl wearing a platinum fox short jacket, a huge washtub felt hat and accordion-pleated skirt, who somehow managed to make the bicycle look part of the ensemble. But shopgirls in printed frocks, bright sweaters, and the tricolor in their hair, as well as elegant women, make the G.I.s realize how much they have been missing in unimaginatively dressed Britain and the damp fields of Normandy...
...From Platinum to Molokai. For the next five years, with "That Girl" by his side (small, pert, blond Geraldine Siebolds Pyle was a Government girl when he married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber...
...often for his own comfort, these illnesses were not feigned. Nineteen times in the last 20 years, Menemencioglu submitted to surgical operations, thrice having platinum ribs inserted in his body. Even this hard-case record was chalked up against him by some adversaries who knew that his personal surgeon was a German, General Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch...
...playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...