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...months ago, while Gilbert Hunger Wright was meditatively scratching the bristly whiskers on his Adam's apple, he noticed that queer sounds came out of his mouth. When he silently mouthed words, the sounds caused by scratching his whiskers were formed into words. Fascinated, Gilbert Wright, who was once an engineer and radio operator, began to experiment further. Finally he came up with a device which his father, who by that time was also interested, christened "Sonovox...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
...Here is a queer conflict between the occasion and the persons. The occasion, if you stop to think about it, is bristling with importance. . . . Here were meeting the heads of the two greatest democracies of the world. . . . That makes it something to worry about, to be sure nothing happens that can be misunderstood, overestimated, underestimated, distorted, omited. . . . The King and Queen, as persons, have overshadowed the occasion. . . . We had expected to like them, and we found we liked them more than we expected...
...folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity...
...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...