Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
Anyone who searched the U.S. economy last week could find evidence to support almost every shade of opinion, from rose to deepening blue. The statistics, as they have been for months, were mixed. Yet an increasing number of businessmen-and many more Wall Streeters-seemed to be looking only at the dark spots...
...judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said Columnist Torre: "I feel like Dred Scott today...
...Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them. Mother's list of customers was helpful in raising money...
...staging a small riot in a restaurant and getting the duke thrown in jail. Since no one in his family has had this kind of fun since the French Revolution, Armand happily jettisons liberty, equality and fraternity for connubiality. U.S. girls are a trifle bossy and European men a shade flighty, but, shrugs Bemelmans, ever the twain shall mate...