Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
...revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines over. Best shots : Miss Daniels in her metal dress; a Mexican padrone respect fully kissing a moneyed young man be cause he takes him to be a safecracker...
...country. Almost with his last breath he was striving for that peace and understanding in which he knew the only safety lay, and with which he so completely identified himself. He was a German who well merited the salute one owes to an adversary who has proven his metal and courage...
...mirror which contains the spirit of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of H. I. M. The Emperor of Japan. Of such superlative sanctity is Amaterasu's mirror that for centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...
...Cleveland and Great Lakes Steel Corp. of Detroit last week merged through the formation of a holding company. Of the new company's $150,000,000 assets, outstanding will be Great Lakes Steel Co.'s new $20,000,000 80-acre plant now under construction in Detroit. Hot metal for the plant will come from nearby M. A. Hanna blast furnaces...