Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prizeman. The Langmuir Prize of $1,000, established by a brother of Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, is actually awarded to a promising chemist under 30. The Society announced last week that this year's plum will go to Dr. Charles Frederick Koelsch, 27, University of Minnesota researcher, teacher and bachelor, for the "quality and quantity" of his unspectacular work with organic compounds...
...that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom hats, red tassels and plum colored jackets, plays 48 drums, 48 gongs, eight long slabs of hardwood to be struck by jade hammers, and 24 flutes of piercing shrillness...
...evening last week, several hundred guests were dining beneath the serene gold and plum-colored Sert murals of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, secure in the knowledge that their slightest whims would be instantly accommodated by the precise and fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March...
...border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live in Dover all the time, pride themselves on the town's small but famed biggest factory, Richardson & Robbins Co. (canners of chickens and plum puddings...
...Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week, poured in brown streams down the aisles and oozed into their seats. Almost the only ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...