Word: lampblacked
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...solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason's victims...
...York's clubby Mayor LaGuardia appeared next with Alfred Emanuel Smith in a minstrel show of the New York lodge of Elks. Drawing the line at lampblack and red silk pantaloons, Messrs. Smith & LaGuardia wore tails, acted as interlocutors for 100 blackface minstrels including Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court...
...minister at Constantinople to Catherine the Great of Russia begging for some lapis lazuli for his court painter, Duplessis, to which the great Catherine replied that she did not have enough for the Russian court as it was. The Louvre Belle's shadows are of lampblack, characteristic of the 18th Century...
...length the inconceivable has happened: "Copey" has deserted the Yard; "Copey," whose presence, though unseen, was as real and essential as the Yard itself to generations of Harvard men. Freshmen will come and go, but Hollis 15, with its flickering lights in the evening, with the lampblack on the ceiling and the trophies of a great career on the walls, these have been written into the final page, and the book is closed. And writers will return, in the future as in the past, to do homage to the man who set them on the road, but they will...
...material to be melted. Using this principle, Engineer Chesnut made an experimental furnace of 1 cu. ft. capacity. The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well. To set up the resistance he packed the crucible in lampblack-an obstinate conductor of electricity. The current was carried through a copper coil. The outside of the furnace was heat-insulated, and a temperature gradient was established through the heat insulation to a water-cooled inductor coil. This carried the heat away, prevented the outside of the furnace from getting...