Word: fan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, her comfortable-looking sister-in-law; Alfred E. Smith Jr., her slim, blond, curly, eldest son, a lawyer; Mrs. Catherine Smith Quillinan, her newly wed younger daughter; Arthur Smith, her middle son; Eddie Dowling, musical comedian; Tex Rickard, promoter. Mrs. Smith wore jade jewelry, waved a magenta fan. She said she did not feel the heat. When Chairman Robinson touched on religious tolerance, she looked moved. When Nominator Roosevelt told what a fine man her husband was she looked proud, grateful. When the convention had voted, she drew out a green silk handkerchief and waved it. She let them...
Strange is the fact that in comparison with the vague and awful charge of "conspiracy to sabotage" the specific charges of sabotage committed are trifling. Major specific charges: turning off a ventilator fan so that several miners suffocated; wrecking turbines by bending the blades; and installing new equipment known to be defective...
...Bori packed her trunks, she did something that would have pleased the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was not easy, for Mozart operas have become so unfashionable that the Metropolitan dismisses him with one performance a season. But Miss Bori was allowed to sing Despina in his Così Fan Tutte ('Tis Thus They All Do). There was no denying that the story of two young men setting out to hoodwink their fiancees into infidelity was faint fodder for great music. Mozart, however, could put anything-a piece of string, a blot of ink-to music. So well...
...applied for 24 hours the growth was "astounding." The heat*rays of the lamps made these long exposures impractical in the past. Even filtering them through a water screen was unsuccessful, but Dr. Davis hit upon the idea of cooling the air in the chamber with an electric fan. This work so well that a 24-hour exposure can now be tolerated...
...started for home. Governor General Stimson had declared flatly his opposition to Philippine independence in anything like the near future (TIME, March 12). The little man in Washington, Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon of the Philippines, was resigning and going home, not only to keep independence sentiment alive but to fan it up afresh as never before...