Word: warp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MOREL-Karen Bramson- Greenburg ($2). A better book to pop into a steamer basket would be hard to find. Though the material is of the general warp and woof of which detective yarns are tailored there is positively no detecting but a great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve...
...warp and woof of New Bedford, Mass., textile city, scurried to the polls last week, pasted little stickers on many a ballot. On each sticker was the name of Charles Sumner Ashley, Democrat. When the ballots were counted it was found that "Sticker" Ashley had been elected Mayor by a majority of some 6,000 votes...
...gypsum is used for the base coat for plaster, because it is adhesive, strong, and resistant to abuse; for tile in building partitions which need not bear weights, because it resists fire and water; for plasterboard or wallboard (pre-shaped at the mills) because it resists fire, does not warp and witstands abuse and cold and insulates against temperature changes...
...Yale used its wit to no effectively organized end whatsoever. Time and again the debaters from New Haven suggested elements of a possible case, but time and again they failed to catch these up into the weft and warp of any sequential argument. It was plain that they sought only humor. Harvard, on the other hand, did present a case. Now, this discrepancy need not necessarily have been difficult to resolve. Had the governing council of the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangle frankly declared not alone that it courted humor, but also that humor, or its absence...
Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...