Word: melts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against...
...into contact. Evidently the ingenious "G. E." engineers have overcome this, presumably by her metically sealing the equipment, including its motor, compressor and all other moving parts. Once or twice a month the machine will have to be shut down until the frost accumulated on its brine tank can melt...
...house fills, glitters, every glitter caught and sifted, anatomized, dissected by high power opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...