Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 28.09.2020 21:24

 AK>> 1. What is "half-moon spectacles"?

 AH> I just saw a wonderful example of what Laurie was probably
 AH> referring to in THE CROWN, second season, episode 5
 AH> ("Marionettes"). The year is 1958 & various scenes take place in
 AH> the London office of a magazine publisher. I see toward the end a
 AH> middle-aged employee wearing eyeglasses (AKA spectacles) with
 AH> lenses of a shape resembling half moons, i.e. if one imagines the
 AH> half moon as we usually see it rotated 180 degrees with the flat
 AH> part on top. In this case the frame holds the rounded part in place
 AH> but there's no frame on top....

Thanks - it was Monday a hard day. I forgot to ask google "half-moon glasses".
;-)

PS: 2Mike - but "a shirt so white it must have been running off the mains"
remains strange for me. But OK, I know it probably means "very white". Google
hasn't helped me at this time.

Bye, Ardith Hinton!
Alexander Koryagin

english_tutor 2020

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