Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent piano tournament were impressed by the facility with which she played Mozart's Minuet in G, the imagination shown in her original pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on My Roller Skates, Pansy Bells, The Butterfly, The Wolf (inspired by Little Red Ridinghood&), Golden Fish in Silver Waters, the result of a visit to the Aquarium...
...highways and byways of the Yard, all should be peaceful in Cambridge, but not so. Fate has wrought up another plague. Since the first warm days in January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood...
...shipyard, a foreman asks for a wedge. Chaplin knocks one out of a cradle, thus launching an unfinished boat. He goes back to work in the steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...convenience and utility. National Broadcasting Co. last week exhibited a three-inch cubical box with slender, demountable, 10-in. antennae projecting on each side. Like the heavier portable sets which it is intended to replace, this pocket transmitter enables an announcer to roam freely at State fairs, golf tournaments, Roller Derbies and train wrecks, ready to broadcast at any instant. Weighing less than a pound, powered by a 90-volt battery which weighs some 3 lb., the set operates on a microwave (about one metre) at 300,000 kilocycles. The signals, which have a range of about four miles...
...idea of calling his Derby Association ''Transcontinental" was a shrewd device on the part of Promoter Seltzer to prevent his event from seeming too sordid, add a touch of the outdoors. A Roller Derby course is 4,000 mi. long. In the Coliseum last week, a map at one end of the arena showed that contestants, skating 85 to 110 mi. per day, from 1:30 p. m. until 12:30 a. m., had last week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York...