Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
When passers-by commented that there wasn't a building in Cambridge high enough for the 100-foot tower, a firemen stepped forward and motioned ominously toward Memorial Hall. "You can never tell," he commented glumly...
Harvard coach Percy Haughton complained to Thorp, but the umpire was forced to tell him the old story of "nothing in the rules." So Haughton did some thinking. He contacted Warner and referred to the treachery. Before Warner could smile, Haughton said that after all it wouldn't make much difference, since he had decided to play with a distinctly red-painted football, which would show up nicely over jersey. He juggled the not yet dry pigskin menacingly. Now it was Warner's turn to beef. "Nothing in the rules," repeated Thorp. The Indians finally saw the light, turned their...
...Moholy-Nagy nor his backers, the supposedly well-heeled Association of Arts & Industries, would say anything except to their lawyers until last week. Then Moholy-Nagy sued the A.A.I. for $2,750 back salary, intimated sadly that he had been gulled. But the A.A.I. had a bitter tale to tell of Moholy's trying to "Hitlerize" the New Bauhaus, announced in some confusion that the school would re-open this week without him, then that it would re-open "soon...
Snake Venom. From a snake farm near Sāo Paulo, Brazil came Professor Maocyr E. Alvaro to tell of the effects of snake venom on eyes. Snake venom is a highly complex compound of proteins and enzymes which vary in quality and proportion with the species of snake. Two constituents of venom have already been isolated; one is a specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated...