Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardently in favor of Christmas. Tokyo's great Shirokiya's stores-rebuilt in glass and concrete after the earthquake of 1923-held a special Christmas sale last week. Colored lights hung from the balconies. On the third floor there was a huge Christmas tree, loaded with celluloid ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled...
...movie is saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs...
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...Astoria, N. Y. James O'Toole Jr., 9, cheered a Roosevelt radio speech, swallowed the Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." ¶ Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better...
...medical school declare that If every case of incipient tuberculosis in children could be discerned, doctors could ultimately wipe it out. Mr. Wright told this to Tinkerer Frank Powers who mused, perfected a system which would take 100 positive x-ray pictures on a roll of paper without using celluloid film at all. With Cloyd Mason Chapman, onetime Edison engineer, he then developed an x-ray machine which automatically focuses the x-rays on the subject to be examined and adjusts the x-ray current to the proper intensity. With this device two operators can make x-ray pictures...