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Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can detect them. In refining petroleum, it removes the sulphur-bearing constituents and gum-forming compounds. But, most remarkable, silica gel makes ice with the help of heat...
Assuredly Miss Daniels, who never stops chewing gum throughout the entire picture, has the ambitions of her profession at heart. Although she falls some-what short of her purpose, she makes "The Splendid Crime" interesting, which it wouldn't have been without...
...daily newspapers forthwith issued the copy which they also had prepared well in advance, blaring the Horatio-Alger-like career of Chairman Jones. "From rags to riches," said the New York World. Two of the gum-chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when...
...purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used, " X marks the spot. . . ." How this phrase is vanishing from journalism was deplorably demonstrated last week by two Manhattan gum-chewers' sheets...
...minutes intrepid Mr. Payne was chatting with him. "That conversation," stated Mr. Payne, "convinced me that the man is insane and ought to be locked up." Next day all gum-chewing Manhattan read his furious attack on Thaw...