Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know how I do it." A year ago he had a red granite stone set up in a cemetery inscribed: ''William L. Strong, world's greatest mathematician. Wonderful...
...Sleet: "That girl couldn't cook. She tried to fry a steak one day and used so much grease it was awful. And eat-why she would eat a cube of butter at one meal and drink a quart of milk...
Toto, who weighs 118 pounds and can enclose himself in a two foot cube, is generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...
...such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying it. It is far too soon to suppose that Americans will come back to the little cube of ice, when there are so many more delightful things to attract...
...regard a barn. If he sees a red rectangular building, useful for the housing of animals and grain, with a farm wagon in front of it, a maple tree behind it, he is in the latter class?an academician. If, on the other hand, he sees a toppling multicolored cube atilt against an oblong vegetable, with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe. Such a one may be a member of the artist colony of Woodstock, Mass., whose pictures were last week on exhibit at the Boston Art Club. These artists are the Whigs...