Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
...supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
...McKelvie trip also found the President photographed in a new role?that of gold-miner. "Panning" gold in Slate Creek, after the fashion of the early prospectors, the President secured a few particles of the shining precious metal. Thus cinema patrons were assured of seeing Miner Coolidge and Fisherman Coolidge as well as Cowboy Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge also panned gold and .succeeded in "getting color...
...quickly, Super-Reporter Lewis was brought forward to make observations beyond the power of liners," workaday wrote hacks. the "Dozens of air Super-Reporter, "with their vast wings of corrugated metal, monstrous as pterodactyls, field." wallowed on the macadam field...
...father, the late Sir Jocelyn Gore-Booth, first had good reason to know his daughter's metal in 1900. She, aged at that time 32, roused his Irish tenants to rebel against him, and made use of the the clutches of his guardianship and flee to Paris...