Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore relief ball Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sang "Cuban Love Song" from his latest cinema, got tremendous publicity when six women fainted. One pushed her way through the mob, tremblingly touched his cheek, swooned at his feet. "Gee whiz!" said Baritone Tibbett, "that...
...blue & black squares and a bold black-&-white drawing, that Publisher Delacorte began to look up the copyright laws. Inspection of Hooey's contents revealed touches of bawdry, sexy double-entendres, shady epigrams, scatological jokes and the like which immediately reminded knowing readers of Captain Billy's Whiz Batig, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly. There, in fact, was a true clue to Hooey's publisher, listed in the masthead as Popular Magazines Inc., of Louisville, Ky. Popular Magazines Inc. is controlled by Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett and his brother Roscoe (TIME...
While the Fawcetts frankly admit that Whiz Bang was the foundation of their prosperous publishing business, they deplore the fact that they seldom are publicly identified with the respectable magazines of their group, such as The Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, Screen Play, Modern Mechanics & Inventions. Few months ago they acquired Screen Book, disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical...
...ribbons pick up small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent as the belt on a dentist's flexible drill...
...STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...