Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waters of Hastings, Mich. There were no children. To their home have come notables from every walk of life and Burbank's name, the most notable in his walk of life, has entered every household in civilization. Among his closest friends were Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison. His death was doubtless hastened by the furor that arose when he stated his religious views publicly, a statement excited by news of Henry Ford's alleged belief in theosophy, and inspired by his own belief that "the unpardonable sin of man is ignorance. . . . There is no salvation whatever except...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...
...glimmering in Wallace Irwin's Mated (Putnam) and Reginald Wright Kauffman's Free Love (Macaulay). There is a full-blooded tale called Carib Gold (Bobbs-Merrill) by onetime U. S. All-Around Athletic Champion Ellery H. Clark, and a new Alaskan tale, Child of the Wild (Cosmopolitan) by Edison Marshall (The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges, Seward's Folly...
Inventor Thomas A. Edison lately said in effect: "Society needs no more inventions for a while. It has not caught up with Science as things stand now." But Inventor Edison quickly denied that, such being the case, he would stop work (TIME, Feb. 22). And last week the National Academy of Sciences announced that no one is going to stop work, that work is just going to begin. With the help of Secretary of Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college...
...Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations, where quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning. The two Manhattan men were glad to sell out to the parent Bell company. Young Theodore N. Vail came in as General Manager, got supporting money from his friends, fought to vast success...