Word: barn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connecticut farmhouse, Inventor Arthur S. Ford, a comfortably built man with a generous mustache, played with a paintbrush and window screen. Filling up the wire squares with paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into...
...trial hearing was scheduled to take place after the present trial of McLaughlin, one of the car-barn bandits, and not before March 21. McLaughlin's trial has taken longer than expected, and will continue throughout the week...
Driven from their barn on Church Street by building wreckers, preparing for the widening of the street, the Stage and Art Departments of the Dramatic Club have been forced to seek a new location in which to carry on their work...
...definite plans have been announced as to where the Club will prepare its flys and drops after this season. Since the Germanic Museum can be used only this year, some other arrangements will have to be made. It is probable that, as formerly was done, some barn, whose days of usefulness are over will be found and transformed into a studio...
King Eadgar and his thanes (so the play goes) have feasted until dawn in the smoky barn-hall at Winchester. The roast boar's head is hewn to skull and tusks. Mead has been spilled on the oak and the king's strong-thewed companions, none over 30, sprawl, snore or listen intently to the end of a long-drawn saga sung by Maccus, the harper. They thump the board with their cups at the finish. The ladies, gathered apart, lament the saga's true-loving hero...