Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Movies. In the Nittany Theatre, where Penn State undergraduates stamp their feet and throw peanuts at the shadows of Harold Lloyd and Gloria Swanson, the chemists admired cinematic views of chemical wonders. A strip of animated drawings designed and presented by the General Electric Co. projected the electron theory of atoms into visible action, showing protons and their spinning satellites moving about to form molecular cubes, circles, chains, polymorphs...
...Bulletin too has its red cover. Red is a masculine color and you are integrating the American mind out of its effeminate idolatry of words. Did you ever tell your 100% objectors to your red strip to begin with the flag...
...must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks long where the value of real estate, as estimated by the Broadway Association, totals...
...last April (TIME, April 4), paid one Anatol Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small...
...second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance...