Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embassy in Albert Gate House, Hyde Park, a great assemblage of dignitaries rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly, the U. S. Ambassador was credited with having prepared the way when...
...Manhattan, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. demonstrated a "panatrope" and "panchords," announced that both would soon be marketed. The panatrope is a new music-making machine constructed on the principle of radio-telephotography, using vacuum tubes and a photo-electric cell to replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable...
...running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid a crash with a car full of cinematographers...
...Inventor Francis P. Houdina's American Wonder, controlled by radio waves sent from a following car. Two sets of waves were used, caught by antennae on the Wonder's tonneau, introduced to circuit-breakers operating small electric motors, which in turn operated steering wheel, clutch, brake, gears, horn...
...word for "unquenchable") is a fibrous mineral substance known technically as chrysotile. Its property of resistance to heat made it a curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...