Word: cardboarded
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...burning white line from the tip of the flame to her beaded train; in Carmen and Zaza, less artistic, perhaps, just as exciting; in Die K�nigskinder, a radiant creature in rags with long golden hair and a golden crown with jagged peaks such as children cut from cardboard, and real live geese (her own innovation) flocking around...
...Aren't We All?, The Green Hat, Her Cardboard Lover...
...obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...least, the movement takes away a certain amount of glamor from a favorite field of writers of boys' stories of the Putnam Hall variety. It marks the passing of romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place...
...chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any angle in any direction, keeping its lower end on the table. Imagine that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly...