Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...
...command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
...married Elinor C. McClements of Chicago, who before her death in 1917 gave him one daughter, Genevieve Arlisle (wife of Capt. Emmet C. Gudger, U. S. N.). When Walsh and wife migrated West, he sought clients among the freeland settlers, first in Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena, Mont., where he established a reputation handling suits against mining companies. In 1906 he was defeated for the House of Representatives, but his law fame grew. With Montana's onetime Attorney General, he formed the locally potent firm of Walsh. Nolan & Scallon...
...until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances. Prior to this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...
...field of electricity not as a dilettante but as a common laborer. He had to discover almost everything that he wanted to know. Of his greatest discovery, which ultimately resulted in the electric generator, he wrote: ". . . had an iron ring made. . . . Wound it with many coils of copper wire, one-half of them being separated by twine and calico. When all was ready . . . the battery was communicated with [the end of one coil]. . . . The helix strongly attracted the needle of [a galvanometre...