Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airdrome in Wichita, Kan., skeptics once doubted that he had really snared ducks flying at 100 m. p. h. 50 to 100 ft. above the ground. To an airplane he tastened a 50-ft. cord, a 1-ft. string, an old black sock, 18 in. long, 4 in. in diameter. The plane then swooped in an arc 100 ft. above him, the sock streaking out behind it. With a 5½-ft. bait-casting rod and a line with a nine-hook plug, he hooked the sock and jerked it from the string on three out of five tries...
...line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident which did not invalidate this refueling method. Food and messages were also passed between the two planes, a rope substituting for the hose...
...Philadelphia, a Mrs. Arthur B. Huey was being treated for asthma. A capsule attached to a cord and containing 25 milligrams ($1,700 worth) of radium was inserted in her nostril. The cord became detached. A sharp intake of breath popped the capsule into the throat, where it was swallowed. Purgatives were unavailing but after several days the capsule was located inside Mrs. Huey by Xray. An operation was undertaken, successfully. In spite of the capsule having remained in the body so long there was no sign of the severe intestinal burns which had been feared...
...better was The Severed Cord by Maxine Finsterwald of Manhattan, presented by a troupe from Sunnyside, Long Island. Psychologically acute, it portrayed a "scab" (strike-breaker), hated and despised by both his son and wife. When the scab's life was threatened the son was vindictive, exultant. But the wife's conscience, dependence and desire to humiliate the living man, conspired to prevent her from allowing the wretch to meet his fate...
Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...