Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...
Alfred C. Bossom, Manhattan architect, has invented a device for saving persons accidentally locked in bank vaults from suffocation. It consists of a tank holding a 24-hour supply of oxygen. The locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which...
Died. Mrs. Emily A. McNally, 67, wife of James McNally, Vice President of Rand, McNally and Co., map publishers, at Lake of Bays, Ont., Canada. She had locked her door after taking a sleeping powder and could not be wakened when the Wawa Hotel, where she was staying, caught fire...
...Edwards fell in love. And Sonora Jack and the Lizard did their best to raise H?1?but, H?1, what could they do against the forces of Virtue? The mysteries of Marta's parentage and Hugh's suspected crime were all wiped up?the Mine with the Iron Door discovered ? Natachee had an opportunity for several symbolic orations?and "in the blue depth of the sky a wheeling eagle screamed . . . Natachee . . . smiled." So did Mr. Wright. Also D. Appleton and Co. Likewise, every bookseller and train-news-agent in these United States when they heard the good news...
What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...