Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing now. Beacon Hill-climbers rub their barked shins unseen and unmolested. Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth to booth, barely perceptible through the fumes of smoke and noise and liquor...
...same time Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd was imprisoned at Fort Jefferson under suspicion of complicity with Booth in the assassination of President Lincoln...
...Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more than swallow cereal and retain his composure when Lee Tracy, blowing in his face, addresses him as "Poochy." He discharges these duties capably...
USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...
Twenty-five seconds after a Photomatic customer in the booth deposits 25? and pulls a lever, his finished picture, framed in light metal, drops out into a receptacle. This speed is accomplished by exposing three-inch circles of sensitized paper already framed. Immediately after exposure the discs are shot into a developing chamber, sprayed by six chemicals which develop a positive print. The print is not quite dry when the ejecting mechanism shoots it out to the customer...