Word: lockets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inspiration to researchers who will begin work at the foundation next year, Fleming left with his hosts a glass locket, the size of a silver dollar, containing what looked like a pressed blossom. It was part of the original mold from which he extracted penicillin 21 years ago. Then Fleming set out for Rochester, Minn., and other research centers to do some personal research: he wants to know what details other workers have found out about the way penicillin works in the bloodstream. He also wants to learn more about the newer antibiotics: streptomycin, neomycin and aureomycin...
Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...
Playing-Card Faces. Usually designed to be set in lockets and viewed cupped in the hand, the miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest...
Repentance. In Philadelphia, an unknown thief crept to Mrs. Joseph Martin's house, tied her $125 cameo locket, stolen eight years ago, to the doorknob with an unsigned explanatory note: "I'm sorry...
...story, like a maddening nest of Chinese boxes, is finally fished out of a flashback, inside another flashback, inside still another flashback. The reason Laraine is such a thoroughly.horrible young woman: she suffered a disappointment about a gold locket when she was a little girl...