Word: whirred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...
Fatter Cameramen. Once forced to hurry from place to place, carrying heavy paraphernalia, cameramen are now pushed about in soundproof wheeled booths invented to keep the whir of the camera from recording on the sound-device. Last week two specimen cameramen, one Ed Du Par and one Ray Foster, both of Warner, gained respectively seven pounds, 15 pounds...
...eager are the trial-goers that many stand in line all night to obtain small pink tickets good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
Human beings, accustomed to the whir of airplanes overhead, remain calm, fail to tremble. Not so giraffes, zebras, sable antelopes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses. Fearing these charges will dash themselves to death in their fright, Sol A. Stephan, manager of the Cincinnati Zoo (see p. 21), last week requested airport authorities to reroute all airplanes to avoid...
Seventeen of the canvases relate the visual majesty of 17 Toledo industries. In them rude men ladle out molten metal, neat girls direct bottle-filling machinery, smoke stacks smoke, vast iron wheels whir, newspapers flutter on the city, crowds walk in the rain before the shops, fantastic masses of machinery move. Two additional canvases show Toledo of today?neat, smoking, moving; Toledo of the future?a high, angled sky line rivaling that of Manhattan. The represented industries...