Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maid's job there, has to content herself with charming some comic local lackeys and an eager Broadway producer (Walter Catlett). At last, at a Butlers' Ball, she utters some high notes which pierce the heart of her brother's boss. She also sings a slice of hickory-smoked Victor Herbert and an aria from Puccini's Turandot with her familiar verve. But as the verses go on, on, on and, by way of variation, on, some customers may feel that Art is the longest distance between two points...
...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...fears of the summer grew to certainties: Finland had blundered again. No longer could Banker-President Risto Ryti and his Cabinet tell each other that Russia would so weaken herself against the Wehrmacht that she would have to listen to Finnish demands for the old frontiers, plus a good slice of Soviet Karelia. No longer could the men who run Finland ignore the pointed hints from London and Washington that Finland would have to find...
...Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...
...stress was first observed by Haüy in 1782 and rediscovered in 1880 by Pierre Curie. It is called "piezoelectric effect" (from the Greek piezein: to press; literally, pressure electricity). Conversely, quartz crystals can translate electrical energy into mechanical movement. When an alternating current is fed through a slice of quartz it vibrates at a definite and unchanging frequency. The thinner the slice, the higher the frequency. It is like a tuning fork which sounds the same note no matter how hard or lightly it is struck, or like the escapement of a watch through which the changing power...