Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...
...does to many men, a 42nd birthday came to Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy. The War Department, of which the Premier is chief, marked the event by presenting Signor Mussolini with a large-calibre shell case, handsomely engraved. One engraving depicted the Premier as a corporal of the bersaglieri (sharpshooters) in the trenches. Another pictured him as a wounded soldier. A third, as Minister...
Marry Me. The vogue of the light comedy is assuming permanent proportions. Florence Vidor is involved in this one which tells the tale of a rural maiden engaged to one John Smith. She writes her acceptance on an egg shell which is delivered to the wrong John Smith in a distant city. The latter is interested in matrimony but more particularly in proving, through the lady, the unconscionable period which a cold storage company had kept...
Seven eight-oared shells bobbed on the waters of the Hudson. To the rear bobbed in unison a strange assortment of craft. On the banks of the river a large, hot, cheering crowd yelled their lungs inside out. "Crack," snapped the starter's gun, and 56 oars buried themselves in the water, while seven megaphoned coxes roared at their crews. Thus began the Varsity eight-oar shell race of the Intercollegiate Regetta...
...Harvard waiters won. They sized themselves up and put in their shell eight men with no nonsense about them. The Yale chef at Gales Ferry, on the other hand, casually lined his scullery men on a mark and gave oars to the first eight men who reached the shell. Such slipshod methods were their own reward. The Harvard waiters...