Word: crystallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
Through Philadelphia streets flew Edward with a police escort, sirens screaming. He told them to pull up at the store of Nick Smar, who took the watch, turned it over, almost dropped it in his excitement. Tremblingly Mr. Smar fixed the crystal, indignantly turned down the $10, wrote "With the compliments of Nick Smar" on the back of his business card. Back to the railroad car flew Edward, with watch, $10, and card. Mr. Early forgot...
...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...