Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photo-electric cell, much more sensitive than the selenium cells hitherto used with indifferent results. The inventor of the cell was one Dr. Carolus, who had based his work on the so-called Kerr method of influencing polarized light so that high voltage produces a strong light ray, low voltage a weak ray. The Carolus cell, which was not described in despatches, transformed light to electricity not only more completely but more swiftly than other cells. It was claimed that complete photographs, not wavy-lined blurs like those published after the London-New York tests of 1924 and the Hawaii...
Wallace Beery alone is excepted from all this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace...
...Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with a mansard roof, a lookout and three men in a boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service...
...From this survey it will be evident that the final solution of the cancer problem has not been reached and patients will still have to rely upon early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment as at present for the most effective means of curing early cancer. Radium and X-ray still remain useful forms of treatment where surgery is not available, and colloidal lead seems to promise hope to others. But at present no final judgment can be rendered concerning its efficacy, nor does it seem likely that in the near future will any great improvement in its use be discovered...
ADVENTURES IN UNDERSTANDING- David Grayson-Doubleday, Page ($2.50). David Grayson is also known as Publicist Ray Stannard Baker, whilom co-editor of McClure's and the American Magazine, U. S. press chief at the Peace Conference, lauder of Woodrow Wilson and professional political commentator. As "David Grayson," he preserves a private personality whose prime characteristic is a genius for wonderment. In some way he has guarded his emotional constitution so that he enjoys life's human minutiae, which is extraordinary when you consider with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend...