Word: proteus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LOKI:* The Life of Charles Proteus Steinmetz-Jonathan Norton Leonard- Doubleday, Doran...
Studying electricity did not prevent Steinmetz from craving companionship. He joined two student societies, the first a mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work...
...Arcy Ryan, who is to General Electric Co.'s light research what the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz was to its studies in power, is charged with arranging electrical displays all over the U. S. for a summer-long continuation of the festivities...
There were a half-million people in the streets. It was fun. Hot oysters and cold bottles. "Promiscuous masking," said the official program. It was a fine old tradition. The gentility rules the city. Their clubs-Comus (the oldest), Atlanteans, Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year...
...Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...