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Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...
...rare gas neon was discovered in 1898 (Ramsey & Travers of England). The neon lamp was invented in 1911 (Claude of France). Neon signs, however, did not festoon the streets of the U. S. in any numbers until the late...
...collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott the Technocrat let off a preliminary bombast: ''We want men of action and when I say men, I mean males and females. Our light is to abolish the price system. Bayonets will line...
...music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town all angles and planes...