Word: kineticism
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In a remodelled cash register factory at Bound Brook, N. J. a moving picture company was started in 1910. It was named for Charles Pathe, French experimenter with kinetic shadows. Among the early U. S. picture companies Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol...
To Nipponese newsgatherers, the most important man in Tokyo last week was not Prime Minister Yuko ("Shishi") Hamaguchi, making a remarkable recovery from an assassin's bullet fired fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 24), but kinetic little Kiyoshi Tanabe, resolutely sitting on a factory smokestack.
The casual observer, knowing the taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual...
For many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day...
Twenty-two years ago little Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. He was President last week, and for only seven of the intervening years had he been out of office. During his first term abrupt persons kidnaped the kinetic little man, who has been called the "Bantam Roosevelt of...