Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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...descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting, but when those movements are made on six wheels of the most approved model, with twelve elliptic and four spiral springs and a Westinghouse air-brake, they are enough to captivate the imagination of the coldest...
...newspapers say, let us now enter. "The interior is sumptuous in its richness. The arched ceiling is frescoed in bright and happy coloring. Silver-plated hooks for clothing are along the sides, and nine improved lamps hang from the ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons...
...something else, - generally into a bed. The fascinating columbine, Modjeska, sits during the daytime on a sofa which, with a wave of her wand, turns into a four-poster, while the noted harlequin, Manager H. H. Sargent, with a blow of his sword, turns some one of his numerous nickel-plated conveniences into a trundle...
...architect of Sever Hall might well get some hints for fitting up the professors' retiring-rooms from the arrangements of this car. A silver-plated hook for the professor to hang his hat on would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath...