Word: sockets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when laundry carts and baggage trucks and lawn mowers and grass sprayers have a sway as complete as it is desultory. The sky is often blue it is June, the grass green, and the elms with full foliage fill the eye; but men in shirt sleeves, unabashed, stretch dreary socket cords from tree to tree and other men assemble, more or less slowly, the lowest common denominators of Class Day fountains and bandstands. Heranlean pounding from behind venerable Sever provokes cases of shaking palsy among pigeons and sparrows. Altogether, the atmosphere is neither collegiate nor festive. The former...
...Harvard Handbook, published and distributed free of charge every fall by the Phillips Brooks House Association, will be of smaller dimensions this year than previously and will also include a socket for cards and personal memoranda, it was announced last night...
...Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...17th Century, Science has recognized the phenomenon that enables people stone deaf to hear conversation if exceedingly loud repercussions occur at the same time. Utilizing this principle, Dr. Byron E. Eldred of Manhattan has invented an ear trumpet. His apparatus consists of a box which, attached to an electric socket, shouts into the ear a large noise, part click, part scream, part whir, not unlike that of an electric train. At a recent meeting of the New York Otological Society, Dr. Eldred presented his invention. The society was skeptical...