Word: socket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sufferers from athlete's foot often have to throw out all their shoes, because they are breeding spots for the offending fungus. Last week Bernard Soep, a Boston industrial designer, demonstrated a new shoe sterilizer-an inexpensive ultraviolet bulb that can be plugged into an ordinary light socket, inserted into a shoe...
...Andrews' collection showed beautifully wrought cupboards, chests, beds, trestle tables, chairs with ball-&-socket joints that could be tilted backward, coopersware, woven articles, primitive drawings of saints and heavenly visions, a complete herb shop. Since the Shakers despised anything so "giddy" as decoration, were even leary of curves, the collection was functional...
Last week the wry-crossed flag of Germany floated blood-red over counting houses and office buildings where Continental Europe's No. 1 commercial nation. The Netherlands, had transacted the rich business of her vast empire. But bare as a tooth socket was many a captured vault and till. For months their contents had been quietly moving to safer places and in the few hours while her Army threw itself before the Nazi drive. Holland's great commercial machine completed the fastest and biggest business evacuation in world military history...
...more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton's own right eye, keeps his face drawn in a deformed grim ace. How the false eye, which is much lower in the face than Laughton's real eye, winks and blinks is Make-up-man Westmore's secret, and he will not tell...