Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of Dr. Hooey's services by the Harvard CRIMSON marks the triumphal conclusion to an arduous search through all sections of the world for a suitable prognosticator of football scores to succeed Joe Forecast. Astrologers, crystal gazers, weathermen, whole tribes of gypsies, spiritualists, and all sorts of seers in all the far corners of the globe have been interviewed by CRIMSON agents since Joe Forecast first intimated some months ago that the rosy path of matrimony was going to lead him forever away from the printshops and football stadia...
...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
...more mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss...
...Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven) who often loudly intones his own verses, returned last week to live in his native Springfield, Ill., after several years of residence in Spokane, Wash. In Chicago he was banqueted by friends. Said he of Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice." Poet Stoddard King of Spokane wrote farewell...
...thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from jealousy, partly from nerves. But Claire, the girl Alan loved, adored Lynneth, credited her with an "elemental tenderness." And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form and move through the trees in radiance." But for all her innocence, Lynneth held the household hypnotized, worked a sinister charm over carnal Douglas. One electric day, detailed to keep her indoors, he succumbed to her eerie charm only...