Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
...mantles. A gas flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...
...deputies, in terror of arrest with the lapse of their parliamentary immunity, fled in all directions. Deputy Thomas cropped his radical locks Hindenburg style, but was recognized by the police and only escaped by hiding in a coal heap...
...views in the critical period of the siege of Boston in 1775, lost by its owner soon after in the British retreat from Philadelphia, buried for almost a century in the possessions of a Connecticut family, unearthed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and forever rescued from the scrap heap of history by the Harvard University Press--this, in brief, is the story of the "Diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775" which will shortly issue from the Press...
This state of affairs attracted the acrimonious pen of George Bernhard, Socialist editor of the Vossische Zeltung of Berlin, who has on occasion found words of censure to heap on the head of the great and notorious "Coke-monger," Herr Hugo Stinnes. Said Herr Bernhard: "The mass of German people do not seem quite aware of what causes foreigners annoyance at this vulgar display. It is not the fact that there is still wealth in Germany. There are rich and poor everywhere, and no sensible person will blame a man simply because he is rich if he does his duty...