Word: dynamos
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...powerful dynamo generating nothing," her crotchets finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half...
...addition to these highly specialized laboratories, the department has modern dynamo and standards laboratories operated under the direction of Mr. R. T. Gibbs...
...invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck proceeded to a special train which Fred Snite Sr. had hired. A baggage coach contained a gasoline-driven dynamo and an extra respirator in case Fred Jr.'s broke down...
...vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents the interior of an abandoned factory, dominated by the gutted carcass of a huge dynamo...
...Fortified by the experience of many a bargaining conference, Leader Lewis possessed also a physical advantage when he sat down with other conferees in the office of Governor Murphy's brother George, a judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court. Frank Murphy is a red-headed dynamo, but he had not had a full night's sleep for five weeks. Husky Vice President Knudsen, according to one of his best friends, had "aged ten years in the past month." Strike Leader Homer Martin was worn to a frazzle, and C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman, third...