Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing Cities. Dr. William Braid White, director of research in acoustics for American Steel & Wire Co., Chicago, reported that he had taken ''sound portraits" of the largest cities for the Chicago Noise Commission. Using the Westinghouse osiso which photographs sound. Dr. White found that 15 stories above ground the numerous small city jangles blend into a definite form, a characteristic ground tone. Each city sings differently, depending upon the number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York...
...week Vice President Curtis walked squarely under a ladder in the executive office lobby. "General" Brown carefully picked his way around it. ¶ President & Mrs. Hoover gave their big "gold braid" reception to the diplomatic corps. Hands shaken: 1,494. With a "Hello, Dolly!" and a "Hello, Alice!" Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth also shook hands, made up their social precedence feud. ¶ Last week the Federal Farm Board reported thus on its wheat & cotton stabilization efforts: "The outcome was not all that had been hoped for." Never the-less President Hoover asked Congress to give...
...Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that...
Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising-horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia-with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28).† Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached...
...Plan is ingenious, effective. Three parallel streams of action run through the book, appear in turn, like plaits in a braid:1) Newsreel, 2) The Camera's Eye, 3) the story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually...