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...slightly anachronous remarks, and Mr. Laurel's somnambulistic expressions. The production is beautifully mounted throughout and all the familiar music is there, although the audience is somewhat diverted during the song "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halis" by Hardy's face, which shines like an electric light bulb and Laurel's phlegmatic consumption of three breakfasts...
...puck. He was revived. Play went on. The period ended scorelessly. Exactly 16½ minutes later, a Detroit second-stringer named Modere Bruneteau took a pass from his teammate Hector Kilrea, made one more perfunctory shot at Maroon Goalie Lorne Chabot, who had already stopped 66. The red bulb that flashes when a goal is scored gave a sudden and amazing wink. Sleepy watchers and exhausted players rubbed their eyes to make sure that they were not, dreaming. They were not. The longest National League hockey game ever played-2 hr., 56½ min. of actual play-was over...
...smallest light bulb ever made by General Electric operates on one ten-thousandth of a watt...
...Manhattan, officials of the Aquarium announced that their electric eel will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
When customs agents boarded Bootlegger Carl Rettich's yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns...