Word: paraffins
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...with a $3,000,000 appropriation by the Egyptian parliament, employing "name throwers'' much like those Germany invented during the War, doughty Spinks Pasha held the grasshopping enemy at bay while trenches were dug along a mile long front. As billions of locusts swarmed and tumbled into the trenches paraffin oil was poured in and blazed. Latest reports were that the original locust offensive had been checked in Egypt, but a second wave was expected when eggs deposited in billions by locusts now dead should hatch. At each lay a single female locust deposits 8,000 eggs in a glutinous...
...thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding from mediums; spirit hands, asked to dip themselves in paraffin, then to dematerialize, leave paraffin gloves...
Prof. Colin Garfield Fink (Columbia University, Electrochemistry) announced last week that he would treat the declining stones?cleansing them to remove bacteria, giving an alkaline bath to immunize them from free salts and acids in the air, filling pores and chinks with melted paraffin and beeswax. This operation will hereafter be needed every few years...
...British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working in her laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi, 50, Japanese Minister to China, onetime Counselor of the Japanese legation at Washington; at Miyanoshita; by his own hand (revolver). Apparent cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director...
...encased in mittens that were sewn to his sleeves, tied to a chair by a rope of which the knots were sealed with wax, concealing no instruments, he was placed behind a curtain. In front of the curtain was a table on which were placed a pail of hot paraffin, a bucket of water, a pencil and a sheet of paper with three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain...