Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance marathon is a sporting event in which the contesting teams, of which there may be any number, are composed of one male and one female person. The purpose of each team is to dance longer than any other team. The rules of the contest are few: teams may rest 15 minutes after dancing for one hour; when not resting they must dance, though almost any form of activity more noticeable than a shiver will fulfill this condition. For contestants the excitements of the game are somewhat limited; like horse-racing, its primary purpose is to excite spectators...
...While a person's actions are being recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind...
...news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...Trader Horn" heavily bearded, chugging a pipe; the same man, less bearded, dragging Cecil Rhodes from the jaws of a crocodile. Critics cavilled, questioned the veracity of many incidents, doubted this man had experienced them all. Whether his narrator's instinct consciously prompted the use of the first person, or whether in his senility he confused hearsay with his own experience, or whether he actually experienced the myriad thrilling episodes of his reminiscences, was subject of speculation...
...that very night, when confronted with the printed story, a Methodist Bishop who had suffered the entire conference in person reiterated a denial of its actuality...