Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching storm excites some people to violence...
Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...like corduroy ribbon. The tiny corrugations are microscopic lenses, made of the film substance, running the length of the film, 559 to the inch. Different from the lens of eye glass or microscope, they resemble rather the lens-like drops of moisture which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once the process is perfected, they are simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon...
FAREWELL TO YOUTH-Storm Jameson -Knopf ($2.50). Anyone who writes as acutely of women and their "new freedom" as does Author Jameson in Three Kingdoms, has no time to concern herself with men like the naive hero of the present volume. Nat Grimshaw, charming enough in his way, takes himself so seriously that his growing pains alternate dull with exasperating. Knowing nothing of women, Nat is tricked into marrying one of the worst; then goes off to war (the Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient...
...that the electric refrigerator refused to work and we were obliged to salt down the meat in order to keep it from spoiling." She told about two wire-haired fox terriers: "Nip developed sea-legs very soon, but Tuck took some time to acclimate himself. By the time the storm was over, however, both had become regular seadogs. Tuck still objected to the slant of the deck, but recovered sufficiently to have a tug of war with the mainsheet. Nip seemed worried because he couldn't find any place to bury bones and none of the works on navigation which...