Word: gadgetized
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Under the soft glow of colored lights playing on bowers of palm and eucalyptus trees, a comfortable but by no means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake...
...happened in this manner: I purchased a number of "Auto Jokers" from a salesman. These are a gadget attached to the spark plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
...whom she is not married) in a scene for which the reporter (Victor Kilian) supplies the fade-out gag. He gives a musical cigaret case to Bellamy with a line to the effect that the possibilities of the trip seem to make the gift appropriate. The tune the gadget plays is "Rockaby, Baby...
...matter of radio tubes a spirited ruckus was well under way last week following a polite invitation by General Electric Co. to members of the "radio press" to inspect a new tube, unfamiliar on this side of the Atlantic. Smaller (3 x 1 in.) than ordinary tubes, the GE gadget had a black steel casing instead of glass, and its glow was hence not visible. Advantages pointed out by the company...
...really necessary for Stillman to cause forty victims' friends such sorrow? Just think, 400 people are probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...