Word: caster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHICH is the better weather fore-caster, a squirrel or the Maintenance Department? Tradition assumes the sqirrel, and according to reports so far the squirrel has not prepared for a cold winter...
...there can be a smile in such a tragedy, it came from the 13th man, a spry little Irishman named Tom Casey who felt the staging going, grasped a caster overhead and dangled for seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...
Next to the porringer is a sugar caster of 1684, quite simple except for some flat, geometric ornament that identifies it with the time and taste of James...
Neither bottle maker nor flat-glass maker is Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., famed as caster of the two 200-in., 20-ton telescope mirrors which are the world's biggest pieces of glass (TIME, April 12, 1934). Corning is a closely-held, privately-owned company dominated by the Houghton family, glass makers since one Amory Houghton built a glass plant in Somerville, Mass, in 1851. Nominal head of the company is Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who was U. S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), later U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1925-29). At 72, the onetime...
...Lake Michigan from the Saddle & Cycle Club, going to parties. He was promoter and part-owner last year of the Century of Progress' most popular concession, the Streets of Paris. Tall, thin, gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses to exhibit his trophies on the walls of the Holabird & Root office at 333 North Michigan Avenue, a skyscraper they designed. Last week he was practicing his fishing skill at swank Coleman Lake Club in northern Wisconsin...