Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contains sudden wealth and perpetual excitement?attractive male plotters, vicious female ones; noble Russians and villainous; plentiful bombs, taxicab rides, cocktails, cryptograms. She would never come through safely but for Colonel Dessiter, who does not die after all. Through a special secret Government bureau, X. Y. O., they foil Moscow, save the nation, preserve the world. On the last page, Miss Brown learns that Colonel Dessiter's name is Geoffrey. "Then, for the first time, Miss Brown was kissed upon the lips...
ACTIVITY CALORIES Lying still ...... 1 Fox trotting .... 4.78 Walking slowly.. 2.6 Stone masonry.. 5.53 Light gymnastics 2.9 Heavy gymnastics 6.7 House painting 3.3 sawing wood...6.8 Walking rapidly 3.8 Housekeeping .. 3.31 Charles polka-ing ............ 7.56 Waltzing ............ 3.99 Foil fencing ........8.25 Shimmying ...... 4.02 Sabre fencing.,.. 8.69 Washing clothes 4.21 Running ............ 9.7 Black bottoming 4.68 Mazourka-ing ..10.87 Schottishing ...... 4.76 Wrestling...
...which in my opinion is going to be one of the best candy sellers in the country." Of cheeses he said: "The new Ancre cheese, a combination of cream cheese and Roquefort, also is a long-keeping article, whereas heretofore it was put up in tin foil packages and perishable. The five-ounce grated cheese is comparatively new and has made a place for itself, with sales constantly increasing...
...contact apparatus mounted on a wheel. As the wheel revolves, the apparatus makes and breaks electrical contact 2,500 times per revolution. To each contact point runs a wire which picks up a bit of the current. These wires carry the current to 2,500 tiny squares of tin foil mounted behind the television screen in neon gas. As the current reaches each bit of tin foil it leaps through the neon, which is instantly illuminated. The flashes thus made, strong or weak, according to the amount of current received, build up the picture on the screen. They arrive...
...demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch...