Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faust sings, "A moi, Satan, à moi!" and throws his book into the fireplace. An electrician switches on a fan, which sends flame-colored paper streamers upward into sight of the audience. The basement maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...sympathizer will be the town's most enthusiastic hockey fan, Mrs. Spencer Penrose, eighty-six-year-old owner of the Broadmoor Hotel, who hasn't missed a Championship game since she inaugurated the tournament in the Broadmoor Ice Palace in 1948. She has her special seat right beside the penalty box and usually makes it a point to meet every player waiting out the two-minute interval...
...decibels," "curves," "roll-offs." Pre-hi-fi sets were unable to top the violin's range (about 8,000 cycles per second) and thus were "unfaithful" to all instruments but bass drum, timpani, bass tuba, piano, French horn and trombone (played softly without mutes). So the hi-fi fan went all out for high frequencies...
...Drive-in theaters, once strictly a summer phenomenon, are doing year-round business in 14 U.S. cities, defying snow and freezing temperatures. The drive-ins keep their customers cozy by providing, for an extra 25?, a portable electric fan-forced heater for the floor...
...past year Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed, with its airy gabble of telepathy and levitation and its photographs of saucers, has sold 65,000 copies in the U.S. and 40,000 in England. Adamski saucer-fan clubs have sprung up across the land, and his readers are flocking to hear him talk of the heavenly spheres ("Let us welcome the men from the other worlds-they are here among us") and peer through his two telescopes. Allingham's new book is a worthy successor to Flying Saucers Have Landed...