Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the virile male figure of the Mississippi and the nubile female Missouri, each followed by a lolloping train of Naiads and Tritons, can face each other, in the fountain's splashing centre, they must be set in place, unveiled. Coming to do the first, stocky, soft-voiced Carl Milles, 64, ran smack into an argument about the second. Sculptor Milles, who had refused to fig-leaf his statues, also refused to commit himself on whether the fountain should be unveiled as soon as finished or not until next spring...
...evening last fortnight blonde Hedda Hopper, onetime actress, now a Hollywood gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Times, tapped out these lines on her typewriter and thereby set a new record for keyhole journalism. No secret was Hedda Hopper's news about the President's eldest son: Walter Winchell had hinted at it months ago, rumors had drifted about Hollywood and Washington ever since James Roosevelt became Vice President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., leaving his wife Betsy (daughter of the late, great Surgeon Harvey Gushing) in the East...
Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...
Last week there were glimmers of light in the gloom. Luxembourg was still silent, but Normandie was back (identified now as International Broadcasting Co.), from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m., with all its old zip and a set of sponsors recommending such soldier-boy comforts as Reudel's Rest-Your-Feet Salts, Freezone Corn Cure, Horlick's Night Starvation Dried Milk. After business hours, Normandie continued to do its bit till 1 a. m., broadcasting propaganda to Austrians and Czechs...
Shell to Nerve. The human hearing machine consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. Mostly decoration, the pink shell of the outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long, protective canal to the eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted through the three delicate lever-bones of the middle ear-the "hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with...