Word: celluloid
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...last night the reports of the University Red Cross Committee showed that almost one thousand members of the University already have the right to wear the celluloid button which designates its owner as a member of the greatest organization in the country. The remaining thousand have only until this evening to do their small part towards a great cause--a cause which is so big that it can make the best possible use of the smallest contribution. One dollar is a small initiation fee for such a society; even with war taxes on railroad fares and Pullman seats...
...Senegambian of Herculean proportions and a solid celluloid dome will be prepared to dodge anything short of bombs. There will be no admission charged to the sideshows, but qualifiers in the various contests will be awarded free tickets to the most astounding array of freaks that ever tripped the timbers. On the big, free, open-air stage will take place a number of specialties for which Europe, Asia, Africa and Providence have been ransacked...
...Celluloid tubes and tubes of wood soaked in some substance making it air tight have also been suggested. The objection to these are that the wires entering through these substances get heated and heat everything we know of except glass...
LOST.- An umbrella with celluloid handle. Will finder please return to or notify at 23 Thayer...
...last strains of "The Sirens" had died away along the corridors. All my fair enchanters - the sirens of the German - had died away along the corridors too. My celluloid collar was limp as a wet rag. The elevator, as usual, was "not running." The gas machine had given out, and the pale beams of the odoriferous kerosene lighted my lagging steps as I climbed the five flights. Claret lemonade was forthwith ordered; the boy left me alone with my straws, and I reflected over my first German. I had been playing tennis all the morning, and reading back volumes...