Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German, Dutch, Bohemian glass, made in the Middle Ages, blown into the tiny translucence of spray bubbles, wreathed into frail, florent cornucopias, drawn into the cruel delicacy of icicles, chiseled into the sunny symmetrical angles of molecular bodies, the collection of Dr. H. W. Muehsam of Berlin was the finest private collection in the world. Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, and the Chicago Art Institute announced that they had jointly purchased Dr. Muehsam's collection. When German experts have impartially divided the pieces into two equal parts, all will be shipped...
...Yankee Clipper (William Boyd, Elinor Fair) centres on a race from Foo Chow to Boston between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...
...cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems, and was surmounted by a pretty little gold castle from which sprouted a crowning spray of ostrich plumes...
...laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious...
...Ordinary wireless waves spray their messages ; the beam system directs them, gaining privacy and saving power. Marconi Wireless Telegraph already uses the beam system to reach other parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations; will have its U. S. hook-up working by July, its South American hook-up later in the year...