Word: broncho
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...reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston) under inadequate stage-type lighting and shipped it off to New York, Sam Goldwyn ruefully telegraphed: "Film awful. You show only...
...Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw a baby cerredge without wakin' the occupant...
Most optical instruments use lenses, mirrors or prisms to coax rays of light. This system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
Died. Clifford Whittingham Beers, 67, onetime maniac, founder and longtime secretary of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (1909-'38); of broncho-pneumonia following cerebral thrombosis; in Providence. Fearing a fancied approach of epilepsy, in 1900 he leaped out of a fourth floor window, lived to see the inside of both private and public insane asylums. Released in 1903, he later wrote A Mind That Found Itself. A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds...