Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...
Married. Louise Mitchell, youngest daughter of Banker John J. Mitchell (Illinois Merchants Trust Co.), to one John Payne Kellogg; at Lake Geneva, near Chicago. The ceremony was performed in what was the Ceylonese exhibition room at the Chicago World's Fair...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, was held a Radio World's Fair. Three hundred and one exhibits of receiving sets, binding posts, crystals, coils, batteries were spread over three floors of the building. Some sets sold for less than $10, others for more than $2,000. Experts noted with enthusiasm the predominance of sets featuring the single control lever and operating without batteries from an electric light socket. In their opinion such simplification of radio apparatus will do much to bring instruments into the 21,000,000 U. S. homes that out of a total...
Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith opened the Fair with a speech broadcast to radio audiences all over the East. He received a picture of himself sent by A. D. Cooley's new photo-radio system. The picture was converted into sound waves; the sound waves were recorded on a dictaphone and "played" for radio audiences. Said the Governor: "The changing intensity of the sound corresponds to the shading of the picture. I guess that loud part is my nose. Now you know what it sounds like to look at my face." The National Association of Broadcasters, assembled at the Fair...
...Halethorpe, near Baltimore, there commenced last week the Fair of the Iron Horse, a pageant-exhibition designed in observance of railroading's first centenary, sponsored by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road Co. In sheds and on sidings, locomotives gathered like blackamoors to an autumn ball. Chooing and spitting cinders, old grandmother engines chatted in squeaky, steamy voices and pooh-poohed the advances of young, sleek, oily, lusty freight-pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which...