Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such superspeed been achieved? German engineers answered last week "chiefly by streamlining the Bremen's hull, by fitting her with a unique bulbous bow." Every layman knows that air friction against a raindrop causes it to assume a bulbous foreshape and to taper off behind-this being the form which offers least resistance to the air. With daring originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen...
...dinner which the 99 attended in Moscow was tendered them by the Soviet Department for Western Trade. Pursuant to a Soviet request "to kindly leave behind furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar...
...situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China's penalty...
...Behind That Curtain (Fox). This melodrama about a girl of the British peerage who marries a peer murderer and runs away from him with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines...
...magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...