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...heavenly bodies except the sun and the moon. The "new stars" occur only as the result of the greatest catastrophes that have occurred within the universe in history, explosions within stars, which may increase their brightness 10,000 times. They sometimes become quite bright to the naked eye, but fade from sight as the disturbance subsides. The one seen by Tycho disappeared after six months. Four or five bright ones have been discovered since the turn of the century...
...costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came the talkies and Sennett slapstick began to fade from public favor. The finishing touch was given by Walt Disney's ubiquitous Mickey Mouse...
...nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont plant was dismantled. Hopewell was again about to fade off the map when Tubize Artificial Silk Co. built a new plant on the site of the du Pont factory, began making something new out of nitrocellulose ? rayon...
...ought to be, wearisome. Suffice it to say that there is one called "Under the Bed" in which that rather impolite article of furniture plays a prominent role. A hatrack in one corner, Belladonna enthroned in the other, a succession of male intruders, a bawdy denouement--and the lights fade mercifully. In a trice the stage is re-illuminated to reveal what is programmatically termed the Beauty Chorus industriously kicking away. And here we have an amusing spectacle, for it is quite palpable even to a jaundiced eye that many of these charmers have not been long on the boards...
...convicted of attacking his daughter Mildred. Reason for the special privileges was that an appeal by him to a mob had saved the three attackers from lynching (TIME, March 19). Last week as the day for the hanging approached. Father Collins saw his chance of executing personal justice gradually fade. The Mississippi House buried the hanging bill in committee...