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   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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