Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack-o-Lantern...
...Stevens-Duryea), 72, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by showing lantern slides of his first "gas buggies" (1892), appealing to automobile manufacturers to simplify their motors, revolutionize their designs, eliminate the back seat bounce. Said Inventor Duryea: "With the engine in the rear the seats would come between the front and rear axle and not over the rear axle as in most modern automobiles...
...Hawaii the Dillinghams are better known as the island's railroad tycoons. That night the President took dinner quietly in his hotel with a few guests, including Will Rogers. At 9 p.m., still smiling, he appeared once more at Iolani Palace to witness a lantern parade of Korean, Japanese and Chinese-Americans...
...With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice. An interpreter, his hands flickering continuously in the beam of light, translated at top speed. Across the screen flew scenes from the Passion Play. When he uttered a guttural German name the lecturer interposed: "That's rather difficult, Mr. Read." But Interpreter...
...first round, Primo Camera lumbered out of his corner and shuffled his huge feet while Tommy Loughran dabbed his lantern jaw with a left jab. In the second and third rounds the champion tried to rush the challenger against the ropes but failed; Loughran, fast on his feet, landed one solid right hand punch. The fourth round was Loughran's, but by now Camera had learned how to crowd his opponent into the corners. In the fifth, he caught Loughran against the ropes and began to smash his face with wide clublike blows. A blonde woman near the ringside...