Word: hobgoblin
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...Yellow Ticket (Fox). Balancing the propaganda of imported cinemas which show the Utopian workings of the Five-Year Plan, U. S. producers often display Russia, most frequently pre-revolution Russia, as a hobgoblin empire in which misery had plenty of company and none of the inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...seemed last week that U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg reversed his Mexican policy twice and that President Coolidge gave his attitude toward Mexico a ponderous half-turn. The Secretary of State and the President began the week as exponents of the theory that there was a Bolshevist hobgoblin in Mexico and that the U. S. should say "BOO!" When the booing of this theory had subsided, Secretary Kellogg expressed himself upon a resolution introduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Joseph T. Robinson calling for arbitration of the points at issue between the U. S. and Mexico...
Some time ago, perhaps 15 million years, there were watery depressions in the enormous slab of territory that is now called Mongolia-reedy lakes along whose shores fed cold-blooded brutes of preposterous, hobgoblin shapes and proportions. Some were small, only eight or nine feet long, with skins no thicker than ordinary linoleum. Their necks were like fire-hose, ending in froggish heads. Their posteriors stuck out like a lizard's, into muscular tails. Their forelegs were futile flippers but astern were haunches like a bull ostrich, for swift, stooped running on webbed and clawed feet. Many of these...
...voice they heard through the playing of a record-but a sound composed of the hum of the operating motor and the vibrations of the mica diaphragm of the soundbox. Driven to desperate shifts by radio competition, the Victor Talking Machine Co. last year set about eliminating this privy hobgoblin. Last week the product of their researches-the Orthophone-was demonstrated. A duralumin diaphragm is substituted for the mica one; the motor is perfectly soundless; its range is five and a half octaves, an increase of two and a half. Most of the improvements were the work of Western Electric...