Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann's chief counsel has seen his client on an average of once a week. Since the trial, Attorney C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington has assumed command of the defense staff in place of beefy, bumbling Edward J. Reilly...
...made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual...
...Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves are caught, re-converted into light which registers the picture on a sensitized plate. Total...
...expression meant, in a famed paragraph in his Renaissance, that: ''Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts...
...waiting time. As Representative Cannon later remembered it, the driver wanted $15. The driver said he asked for $6, whereupon his beery fares cursed, threatened to beat him up. Timid, the driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons...