Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here are four clocks, all going at different speeds, two registering morning, and two afternoon time. The betting on the winners is wonderful sport. They have a shooting gallery at one end of the room with a bell moving across a black screen, any number of whirling spheres, electric light bulbs, etc. At one side of the shooting gallery is a peep show which you work with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used...
...benefit of the C. M. T. C. to be represented as nothing more or less than it really is. By all means, give the C. M. T. C. its due and proper place but by the same token, that place does not require it to serve as a screen to hide congressional improvidence in military matters...
...Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again it may be pointed out that no other museum anywhere contains as full a reproduction of this extraordinary group of monuments. And similar things may be said of our representation of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture. For I know...
...Foolish Wives--the most wonderful picture in America--by and with Von Stroheim, 'the man you will love to hate'. The most costly, gigantic, superb and artistic screen spectacle ever devised and presented either in America or anywhere else in the civilized world. Reproducing in all its glory Monte Carlo the capital of the world of chance. Where Even Saints Are Sinners...
...wrong, especially in the case of impressionable youth. Frequent statements from the juvenile courts show the misdeed to be directly traceably to a recent movie. A boy in Connecticut not long ago caused a train-wreck by picking the switch-lock with a crowbar, a trick learned from the screen. Many young runaways, when caught, admit that their inspiration for the delights of the open road was gleaned from the silversheet...