Word: robots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vainly had the defense objected: "A lawyer can't cross-examine a mechanical robot. The film could have been cut ... the voice faked. We will take this case to the Supreme Court if necessary...
Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...
Famed is England's DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious...
...stands, sits, walks, talks, turns, twists, wiggles his ears and even on occasion shows his teeth in a vicious gesture. Such is the mechanical man, known as Eric Robot, now being exhibited at the Tremont Temple in Boston...
Asked if he believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...