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...Click, click, click, buzz," answered a Televox upon the signal of its inventor, R. J. Wensley, over an ordinary telephone last evening, and proceeded to turn on electric lights, start electric fans and trains and do other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which, was exhibited at the training school of the Boston Elevated Company, is the nearest approach to the long-sought "mechanical man". It consists of an imaginative cardboard figure of a man surrounding a complex electric outfit which forms the man's "heart...
Black of New York is another Democratic gadfly, forever shuttling in and out of debate with stinging comments and troublesome questions. He is something of the playboy-too much so for the leaders to take his buzz and sting very seriously...
Postmaster I. O. Yoder, a remote cousin, entertained at lunch. All afternoon there were conferences and buzz-buzzings in a big tent pitched behind the high school. Dinner was a Hoover-family reunion at Remote Cousin Ralph Branson's (on whose farm was the swimming hole...
Nasty insinuations against Candidate Herbert Hoover sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...figure was William Lorimer, once known as "the Blond Boss of Chicago," whose reception with other Flood lobbyists at the White House last autumn stirred up such an indignant buzz among fastidious citizens (TIME, Nov. 21). For 12 years (1895-1901; 1903-1909), Mr. Lorimer was a U. S. Representative. Then for bribery in his election, he was as Mr. Schafer bluntly put it "kicked out of the Senate." Mr. Schafer roared that Mr. Lorimer, aside from his political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control...