Word: crystalize
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...uniform, got the thrill of his life. Summoned to the private railroad car of the President of the U. S., on a siding in Philadelphia, he was met by Secretary Stephen Early, who gave him a $10 bill, and a plain silver wrist watch, with instructions to get the crystal fixed. On its back was inscribed...
...With The Stars" is not Gidding's best story, but his understanding of a character, in this case Crystal Lodus, was never keener. Somehow Crystal, with all her cheap beauty and her intense longing for the far-away love of a Tyrone Power or Alfred Gwymne Vanderbilt, is a part of many men and women much bigger than herself...
...border line between the living and nonliving hovers a mysterious invisible substance: the virus. Some scientists think the virus is the most primitive form of life; others insist it is a heavy protein molecule, with complex chemical reactions, a kind of crystal which exists as a parasite on living tissue. But whatever the nature of the virus, one fact is certain: it is the foe of all living things, from microbe...
...Harry Hopkins was well known to every Term III Democrat: it traversed the plush gloom and sombre elegance of the old red-brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign...
Perhaps they were right. For by last week it was crystal clear that France's collapse had been preceded by a long, slow disintegration of the democratic and republican ideal, and in the process of disintegration was many a lesson for thoughtful U. S. citizens to ponder...