Word: violet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daisy-&-Violet Hilton are a pygopagus, a double-monster joined at the buttocks. They say that the bones of their lower spines and hips are fused and that the same blood courses through both bodies. Invoking shyness, they refuse medical or x-ray examination. Presumably if Violet were to bleed to death, Daisy would also be fatally drained of blood. But, strangely, three weeks ago Violet had a bad cold and fever. Yet Daisy ran no fever...
Adult, 26, worldlywise, once named as corespondents in a Kansas City divorce action. Daisy-&-Violet Hilton argued last week that they knew what they were doing about marriage. They cited Chang-&-Eng, the actual Siamese whom P. T. Barnum made so famed that all conjoined twins thenceforth have been called "Siamese." Chang-&-Eng (1811-74) took the name Bunker and married daughters of David Yates, North Carolina minister. The wives kept separate domiciles in which the brothers took turns living. Chang had ten children, Eng nine. Their descendants are reported still living in the Piedmont...
Conard Nagel, one of the old faithful hams, completely outdoes himself in a very tender and emotionally sincere portrayal of the country squire, while Violet Heming, his leading lady, makes an effective if rather too studied fell for his own wistful flightiness. With the addition of some fine character acting by Kathryn Collier and John Halloran the piece becomes a finished job; one of the most sophisticated productions to reach the Hub city in this season...
...Violet Shore was the independent only child of a hard-bitten millionaire who had made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When...
...cheeked Dr. Zworykin announced that his iconoscope was ready for use as the "eye" of a powerful ultramicroscope. Its field of operation extends on both sides of the visible light spectrum -up to 10,000 angstrom units on the infra-red range, down to 1,000 on the ultra-violet.* This point on the ultraviolet side is 2,000 units lower than in other ultramicroscopes. If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength. Light of longer wavelength they escape...