Word: zippering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he went to prewar Europe to set up zipper factories, he also set himself the task of analyzing the Continent's political and economic problems. Cheerfully unabashed by the failure of the world's statesmen, he put his conclusions into a book, soon to be published, called A United Europe-or Else...
Salvador Dali, who will try anything once and usually does, tried designing the well-dressed woman of 2045. She looked a little like a scarecrow with a fatal fascination for crows, a little like a collision of paper pinwheels (see cut). Her accessories included a big crutch with a zipper (to serve as a handbag, also as spiritual and moral support) and a little crutch with strings (to lift the skirt...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...soldiers and natives who gathered last week inside the crumbling walls settled back to listen to Beethoven's Third (Eroica) Symphony. Occasionally during the softer passages, a siren wailed or a bulldozer could be heard working away at Manila's rubble. Beads of perspiration tipped Dr. Zipper's sharp nose. In the first row sat Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, in a pink cotton frock.. Also present was the Symphony's president, Mrs. Benito Legarda, a handsome Philippine woman who hid the Society's instruments and scores from the Japs...
Gadgets and Dowagers. Einstein, whose love of music and sailing is well known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...