Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh. Senator duPont had only lately had his larynx removed. Senator Walsh's eyes were bothering him and, hearing he was to have teeth extracted, some people wished the teeth could be removed from his methods at the same time. Having conducted the Oil Inquiry, he now plans a Power Probe...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...have seen him seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could go in for a sitting feeling pretty low. One look at him and I was filled with enthusiasm. He radiates power, and you catch some of it from him!" Calm, Artist Christy announced that he would at once put on view at his apartment (No. 1 West 67th St., Manhattan) not only his new portrait of Mussolini but another depicting Crown Prince Humberto of Italy...
They sat through what is certainly one of the most expensive preparations ever put up, a luxurious operetta about Africa. Dawn, high priestess of native religion, loves an heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed...
...Early History of Power, Machinery," Professor Usher, Widener...