Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This curious colloquy took place last week in Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...
Died. Walter Costello Kelly, 65, famed vaudeville actor ("The Virginia Judge"), brother of Dramatist George Kelly and Philadelphia Democratic Boss John B. Kelly; of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile; in Philadelphia. A machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim" Sullivan mistook him for a prominent Virginia politician, asked him to a Bowery clubhouse's annual meeting. When called on to make a speech, he told stories he had heard in a Virginia court, brought down the house...
Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr. '42 of Philadelphia and Grays Hall was elected Chairman of the Freshman Union Committee last Tuesday evening at a special meeting...
...student at Wells College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University...
Logan Pearsall Smith's autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...