Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most moderns, but to some it is still a fighting word. In the ebbtide quarrel about whether Dickens was an overrated hypocrite or a great man who actually got his due, Author Kingsmill tries to stir up the dying ripples whereas Author Maurois does his tactful best to pour oil on them. U. S. readers, not because they have read Dickens' vituperative American Notes or Martin Chuzzlewit but because Kingsmill's attack is more convincing than Maurois' defense, will be inclined to agree that Dickens was not all his partisans have cracked...
...shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...bubble burst. That description is almost literally true; the swelling surface which had given more and more light as it expanded, became too tenuous to give constant radiation, and the effect of the large surface disappeared. The hotter radiation from the deeper layers of the star began to pour through the still expanding fragments of the bubble, and a real explosion might be said to have occurred...
...lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain pour down your back or your chest." Of food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared." Of party manners: "You will, of course, want to appear...
Watteau's greatest painting was the one he had to do to be received into the French Academy. Five years after he had promised it, the Academy lost patience and gave him a month. In seven days Watteau dashed off the Embarquement pour Cythère. Again, to limber up his fingers, he painted in eight days the famed signboard for the decorator's shop of his friend Gersaint, which somebody later cut in two. Frederick the Great, however, picked up both halves...