Word: gadgetized
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...insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the South was tempted, old Yankee families grew rich and conservative in the manufacture of textiles, tools, machines. When Thomas Alva Edison devised a lamp which never needed filling, the gadget appealed to a good Hartfordian whose fortune had come from linen. With $20,000 capital Austin C. Dunham founded Hartford Electric Light...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
Bobby Clark has been deprived of his cane in Thumbs Up. His gadget this year is a hollow cigar through which he peppers court attendants with spitballs from the bench as he presides over a murder trial. He also plays Senator Screwy Short from Louisiana, and a pathetic character who wanders into a Communist printing plant to get a poster made for a lodge dance. Despite his repeated protests, "We just want to dance!" the poster he finally gets demands that all the lodge members meet in Union Square, march up Fifth Avenue, fight the police...
...makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
...half-pint of dairy cream. Heavy cream which sells for 22¢ per half pint can be made for 9¢. Big milk & cream retailers like Borden and Sheffield Farms snorted last week at the idea that the cream machine will cut into their cream sales. It is merely a gadget, say they, which will be laid to rest on the kitchen shelf after the novelty is worn...