Word: venusized
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...rising. Venus shone with especial brilliancy. At precisely that midhour the General woke up of his own accord. He felt refreshed, vigorous. As a revolutionary against Spain from 1895 to 1898 he had learned to sleep deeply in brief periods. He pattered to his bath, a stocky, powerful man of 57. A secretary followed, reading to him summaries of the night's news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days...
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...Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being 1,000 times greater than Earth...
...fond of plover eggs. He drank champagne from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...
...Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys. She sends them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated at a girl's finishing school...