Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thriller for youngsters who like the cops and robber game as played in the Canadian Northwest. In 1935, Joan Baker's interest in the Canadian North-west was very limited. She was a member of the Strollers at Ohio State, circulation manager of the Ohio Stater, contributor to the Lantern, and an athlete in women's intramurals. John Weigel was a classmate, working his way through Ohio State as an announcer at the local radio station. They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan is the heroine of "Renfrew...
...second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward the filling station to look for a glove. As Farmer Baker was returning with a lantern, the messenger and a mechanic appeared with the battery. The four men walked up the road, found nothing, went back and installed the battery. That done, they again set out to look for Mrs. Taylor. Two hundred yards from the car they found her crumpled in a ditch, with...
...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...
...Landon, two if by Roosevelt, and skyrockets for Colonel Apted, is the formula that has been adopted. One lantern will be lowered and waved in semi-circle to the north if Landon is leading at 9 o'clock tonight. If, however, Lloyds prove to have the wrong information, and Roosevelt leads at 9.30 o'clock, two lanterns will be lowered, one slightly higher than the other, and both will be hurled into a semi-circle to the south...