Word: tinfoil
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They had troubles. Some were running out of hairpins. Others had no more tinfoil for permanent-wave pads. They were beset by complaints of leg make-up that ran in the rain. Many were unable to reorder essential supplies-bubble baths, dyes, cellophane, bleaches, alcohol, shampoos...
...massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
White-haired, toothless Sage Carver still sticks to his philosophy: "Save everything. From what you have make what you want." His gnarled hands are always busy with bits of string, tinfoil, clay, which he fashions, as he talks, into decorative objects. He is proudest of his picture of four peaches, painted with pigment made of native clay, not as a work of art but because any child, as a result of his researches, should be able to use similar material. "That's just the clay we walk on every day." says he. " Our clays are just as brilliant...
...British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...
Young Dr. Fabing found it impossible to talk to Eugene "because of the numerous small attacks which followed quickly one upon the other." The boy sat vacantly in his office winding spools of twine, fumbling with balls of tinfoil like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan...