Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once the process is perfected, they are simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more or less transparent according to the light rays that come in. There is no color in the finished film. It is a pattern...
...irritated many of them by pooh-poohing blandly: "In 36 years in Chicago, 7 have never been held up, robbed or racketeered." Last week Mr. Strawn had changed his tone, perhaps because he did not have to add specifically to Chicago's embarrassment. He made Crime the main burthen of his retiring-president address. He even offered a neat classification of causes for Crime's since-the-War increase, as follows: "1) The increase and development in the means of communication, hard roads and high-powered automobiles, making the 'getaway' easy. "2) The vastly increased wealth...
...again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete with carnal favors. Happily, none of the main characters is convincing-not even Cousin (by marriage) Ann who comes to Nat's rescue...
Lost in the Arctic. In 1913, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson led an expedition for the Canadian government into the Arctic. Four men became cut off from the main party and were never heard from. Ten years later, H. A. and Sidney Snow set out with cameras to discover what happened to the four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos...
...fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins, and the churchmen and politicians that run riot through both volumes. With all its exhausting intricacies, this panoramic novel abounds in rich knowledge of Italian nature, and a kindly disparagement of human futilities...