Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right Honorable Members, grown restless, welcomed a diversion caused when the electric light circuit of the House was interrupted for more than an hour. The Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
Madame Calvé will now tour on the Keith circuit...
...From newspapers a President of the U. S. receives blessings and maledictions in about equal proportions. Seldom is a President reluctant to perform as President Coolidge did last week. In the White House, he pressed a button which closed a circuit which passed a current which started a motor which set a-humming some news presses in a new plant of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal...
...asking favors for oystermen; Senator Frederick N. Gillett of Massachusetts, to pay respects and tell a story (see POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House and given Distinguished Flying Crosses for the flight to Hawaii; Chief Justice...
...last scene, the audience sees them together as they appear to audiences on the burlesque circuit, doing a waltz buck while a brazen orchestra shatters her sentiment into cheap, broken rhythms. "Can you make it?" she asks under her breath of her tottering spouse, snapped out of a month's debauch for this merry function. "I can-if you'll stick, kid." "I'll stick-always," she answered, and as the curtain falls the audience knows that she belongs forever to the blah of her man, to the hurdy-gurdy of the footlights...