Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bohemian Club of San Francisco was founded in 1872 as a club for artists, dramatists, musicians, authors and persons appreciative of the arts. Among the membership of 2000 are David S. Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest...
...story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals that he is an eater of darkness. He controls a ray invention, by which he can not only see through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They aim the ray. Soon the city awakes to find Harry Hansen, William Soskin, Heywood Broun, Henry Seidl Canby...
...takes terrific tumbles which are funny because he, as well as the audience, feels them coming long before they happen. Mr. Mahoney also smears part of his face with lampblack and burlesques Mammy songs in a way which should, but probably will not, eliminate them as legitimate amusement. Ray Kavanaugh's orchestra, which helps to promote such fetching tunes as "Song of the Moonbeams" and "Kinda Cute," not only rises mechanically from the pit, but moves slowly back across the stage and is ultimately hoisted high in air to accompany a hectic first act finale...
...Rentschler constructed a photo-electric cell with one pole made of uranium. Uranium is sensitive only to the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. They charge it electrically. Hence when the Rentschler uranium bulb is exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between...
...Under the chairmanship of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, it is making a five-year study of the cost of medical care...