Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smelliemakers can provide more realistic smells and make more intelligent use of them, the scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another plans to fill his theater, at tactful intervals, with the scent of buttered popcorn...
...Revell Inc.'s Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant. The build-it-yourself kit includes a reactor, steam generator, and power-transmitting equipment. List price...
...carry out his schemes, Landry has swarthy End Andy Robustelli (6 ft. 1 in., 230 Ibs.). who loves to dismantle quarterbacks. Wreathed in sweat and steam, Tackles Dick Modzelewski (6 ft., 260 Ibs.) and Rosey Grier (6 ft. 5 in., 285 Ibs.) block up the middle. Boss of the defensive backfield is gritty Jimmy Patton (5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs.), a fleet (9.9 sec. for the 100) ball hawk who has suffered concussions batting down passes...
Whatever the inspiration that sent a flat-wheeled caboose clattering after Author Metalious' steam-powered first novel, Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling...
...Supreme Court Justice in a steam bath is divested not only of shirt, shorts, socks, shoes, pants, and robe of office. but of his authority. So argues Author Lawrence Langner, director of the Theatre Guild, authority on patent law and, in this volume, theorist on the use and abuse of clothes. Writes Langner, with the fervor of a textile magnate enjoying a martini after a board meeting: If it were not for the invention of clothes, "there would be precious little religion, government, society, law and order, [or] morals...