Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford car. The pilot sits at the wheel, flips a conventional Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses his heel on an ordinary Ford starter button, pulls out a Ford choke rod, shifts his feet to-instead of a rudder bar-a set of pedals like the old Ford transmission pedals, yanks with his left hand a Ford brake lever that locks both wheels, or brakes either one for ground-steering. Because the engine and propeller are far separated from the cabin...
...comedy of sophisticated Budapest as it acts for a day in the country. The only thing jibing with this reviewer's quaint idea of what is Budapestian is Vilma Banky, and she is accordingly honored only because he read in the program that she was born in those parts. Rod La Roque is not quite up to his movie standard, which was unpleasant enough, anyway...
Lightning rod of the modern press is the news-camera man. Most persons who are subjected to unwelcome publicity see the wisdom of treating reporters civilly. But let a camera click and click goes something in the overwrought subject's brain. If anyone is going to get hit it is the camera man. During the past fortnight, press lightning rods had the following experiences...
When someone has to be beaten in Russia, and the someone may be a refractory Red Army soldier, or of course a prisoner of the G. P. U., the order is dat shompola, "to give the cleaning rod." A heavy "rod" of twisted wire, such as soldiers use to clean their rifles, is used as a whip...
Last week despatches from Rome told of another use for the divining rod. Maria Mataloni of Lepringnano startled savants several months ago by finding a Roman tomb with her divining rod near Capena, ruined ancient Etruscan town. Last week she was taken to Pompeii by Professor Amedeo Maiuri of Naples Museum, located several places in the buried city where, she said, were hidden gold, silver, bronze...