Word: glow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigarets: statue of a tall, bronzed woman, smoking a Marlboro; at her left, a man stands with a cigaret of similar brand drooping between his fingers; in the day time, smoke, from an invisible source, curls from the mouths of both figures; by night, the ends of their cigarets glow with an electric fire...
Imagine an enormous male doll, bigger than most policemen. Its ruddy skin has a waxen glow. There is a wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from...
...Democracy," someone has said, "is a sublime fallacy." However that may be, this sublimity, in various aspects at least, is gradually suffusing the globe, until, in the not too far distant future, one may perhaps hope to see the whole world bathed in the refulgent, mellow glow of golden unanimity...
Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
Sending Set. This consists of: 1) an arc light of brilliant and steady glow which throws a beam of light through 48 apertures arranged spirally in 2) a large disc that revolves 18 times a second. The light thus brushes speedily across an object or performer and is reflected back upon the third important element of the device-photo-electric cells. The reflected light modifies the electro-magnetic waves passing through the tubes. With light waves rapidly translated into electro-magnetic waves, there remains no problem of sending the electro-magnetic waves through the air. Radio transmission, which changes sound...