Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brother Murray Edes, who holds the record for inquiring visits to the orderly room, has a new invention to supplant his motor that revolves around the shaft--a frictionless engine that he plans to patent some day. As yet the details haven't been revealed, but the many noises emanating from A-33 give promise of something spectacular in the near future...
...distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight...
...apartment, he heard a muffled clomping. Opening the door, he beheld a large and handsome White Horse. "Yes?" said the Senator. The White Horse made no reply. Instead, drawing a watch from its vest pocket, it muttered, "Oh dear, I shall be too late," stepped into an open elevator shaft, and disappeared. Unhesitatingly the Senator followed...
Hungry Topeka Rotarians wondered what had happened to the speaker of the evening. The speaker, Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel, was stalled between floors in an elevator. After 20 stalled minutes he boosted his fellow passengers out through an opening between the elevator ceiling and the shaft door, human...
...music to slightly over half its length, reorchestrated many passages of Bach counterpoint, peopled the Metropolitan Opera stage with a bevy of hooded mimes, who prowled about a collection of ramps and platforms like Ku Klux Klansmen at a Konklave. The Saviour was represented by a vertical shaft of light whose symbolic feet were symbolically dried by the hair of Maria Magdalena (Lillian Gish...