Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Isaac Fuld, 74, manufacturer (with his late brother William) of the Ouija* Board; of bronchopneumonia; in Baltimore, Md. Before the peak of demand, Brother William enlarged their factories, claimed their product had told...
Composer Rudolph Friml told a Manhattan newshawk of a "conversation" he had had with the late Victor Herbert via the Ouija board: "He says to me, 'Play five notes.'. . . I play. . . . It is Victor Herbert. It is his style exactly. Then Victor Herbert he says to me, 'Quite charming...
...week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written by a slightly phoney, Dostoievskian pixy...
...startling as a Ouija, the small, two-pound, dial-topped box, bare of any wire connections to the receiving set, changes the receiver's tuning from station to station, raises and lowers volume. Selection is made by a gadget that looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which...
...Mudd's pardon was signed by President Andrew Jackson as you state on p. 57 of your issue of Feb. 24, it must have been done on a ouija board. Don't you mean President Andrew Johnson...