Word: ratchet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the trick is done by means of an iron and leather harness worn by the performer which is attached by means of a ratchet to the upright stick...
Staff men pumping ratchet levers jacked the trucks slowly apart until the air gap between the fulminating balls approached 40 ft. Blue, green, violet and lavender lightning lapped hungrily around the bases of the columns, licked the steel roof-beams overhead, searched the walls of the hangar, crashed from ball to ball. At last the designer cried...
...Warrior's Husband" is chiefly remembered for the Hepburn. Miss Hepburn is the rrrrrr rise of a new stage type, Katherine 'Hepburn. Miss Hepburn is the most obvious Amazon, except for Amelia Earhart, in the public eye, and in her Hollywood ventures she has been cast as a ratchet-voiced tomboy whenever possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi...
...turgid waters of the Charles yesterday when a fighting Dunster crew went down to defeat under the stern of a Winthrop shell. Although a classic in itself, this event is important as the first in a long and happy series. Another cog has been ground in the ratchet of tradition...