Word: dinfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transported to Cambridge for that purpose, were then asked to remove their coats and prepare themselves for the paint. This latter was most lavishly spread on the physiognomies of the chosen few, in turn, by R. L. Stough, expert painter of the First National Studios, amidst the smoke and din resulting from the presence of countless newspaper photographers. At the conclusion of this process, the stars of the picture world, to be, were given three minutes each in front of a First National field camera, during which these they were to depict, for the photographer and acting director...
March of the toilers. Din of the builders. Birth of the hero; the hero emerges from the welter, full-fledged, ready for Service; he tries his metal...
...precious stones, motor fuel with water as a large ingredient, silk out of lobster shells and other garbage, bullet-proof police clothes. But aviation is the prime field in which Germany proposes to dominate the world tomorrow. Supremacy in the air will, she thinks, give her commercial supremacy. While "DIN," the Deutsche Industrie Normung, works on earth to standardize every manufactured product in Germany? from collar buttons to apartment houses?and begs the industries of other nations to cooperate, so that a spare part for a, motor or typewriter made in Germany will be obtainable as readily in Brazil...
...lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary; his voice quavered. Somebody said: "I object." His last plea was dashed to the floor like a broken relic. Like an angered god, he lifted his voice above the Senate din, pronounced a commandment: "Every Senator can't have his own damned...
...George Tyler announced the return of Mrs. Patrick Campbell after a twelve-year absence from the U. S., greybeards revived the legends of her fiery temperament and explosive tantrums. They recalled how, in 1902, she ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic in proportion, infelicitous...