Word: sheaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dances. The Highland Fling, the Irish Jig, Sailor's Hornpipe and the Sword Dance were among the dances. Dancers were judged for ease and grace, correct costume, expressive "hauling" and "heaving." The sword dancer, who dances over a naked sword crossing its sheath, must not touch either, but must dance fast, with abandon. Best-Dressed Highlander. He must own his clothes. His shoes must be low-cut brogues without buckles. The kilt must be made of his clan tartan, worn plain, no bows, no ribbons. The sporran (bag) must be of mottled leather or fur. If fur, the animal must...
...Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
...voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which are thoroughly dried, and then impregnated with insulating oils. This paper insulation is then surrounded with a lead sheath. Such cables behave most erratically. They may be tested in the factory at four or five times their working voltages, and yet in three or four months' service they may explode in several places...
...wordless book, a swordless sheath...
...three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain a "spirit hand" which the magician later admitted to be a paraffin sheath. Conjurer Dunninger said he would make the ghost of Houdini come; at this a spectre mewed at the newsmongers. Two slates bound together were found to have on their previously blank surfaces silly messages purporting to come from Rudolph Valentino, from Harry Houdini. A sheet of paper bearing identification marks...