Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...lighting circuit; when the frequency is 480 cycles, the receiver pulls a switch that disconnects the lamp. All lamps in a particular circuit go on and off at the same instant, just as if a man operated one switch in a control station. For another group of lamps another pair of frequencies would operate the circuit; and so on. The great advantage is that a few men in a central station could handle all of a city's lighting...
KING FOR A DAY --OLD MAN SUNSHINE, sung by SAM COSLOW. Coslow is billed as the "Broadway, Minstrel", has a good voice similar to Harry Richman, and a pair of agonized eyebrows. The record however, Isn't so hot. Not Coslow's fault--just a poor recording. Watch this...
Said the New York Evening Post, "Take the fuselage of an ordinary airplane, stick into its sides a pair of garden spades, with the handles into the plane; put on the nose a propeller slightly smaller than the ordinary airplane propeller, and you have the autogyro, except for the pinwheel...
...Made Women. Sophistication in the cinema may be achieved by the simple expedient of introducing the hero and heroine as a wedded pair. The problem in this case is essentially that of the jealous husband, who sternly, illogically resents any influence upon his wife's life which is extraneous from the elemental man-woman relationship. He is jealous of his wife's bridge clubs, golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego. This good piece recounts the story of John Payson, green-ired husband of Nan. John (John Boles) wants to lead his wife's life. From...