Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waning position. To jaded guests she offers, as entertainment and prey, a virginal American heiress, Anne. A curious decadent odor hangs over the affair, waves of sickening smell choke the perverted conversation. Anne, suffocating, escapes from the room. Downstairs she clatters into something that jangles dismally. It is a metal funeral wreath of painted violets and roses. A door opens and in the dim light Anne sees three women clucking over the apothecary's bloated corpse. Overwhelmed again by the curious decadent odor, Anne recognizes it at last-the odor of Death...
...receiving set was hidden in the shallow top of the table, one leg of which was equipped as an aerial, another as a ground. The phenomena were produced by the activation of an electromagnet which attracted pieces of metal cleverly hidden in the performing objects. There was even a small piece of metal concealed in the bit of chalk which did the writing, directed by a telautograph...
...Gallery XV there has been installed an exhibition of prints representative of the decorative arts. The fifteenth century Italian and German engravings have been chosen because of the manner in which they illustrate the furniture, metal work, textiles, and architectural treatment of exteriors and interiors during this period. Schongauer's "Life of the Virgin" is among the best known of the works in this group...
...long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does not ordinarily waste...
Detroit, fourth U. S. community (pop. 1,378,900), has $25,000,000 invested in the aviation industry in its neighborhood. Aircraft motor makers are Continental Motors Corp., Packard Motor Co., Stinson Aircraft Corp., Stout Metal Airplane Co. At the show last week Eastman Aircraft Corp., and Verville Aircraft Co. for the first time exhibited planes. Cadillac Aircraft Corp. and Trella Aircraft Co. showed experimental models. Four other concerns are working on aircraft designs...