Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...
Signor Benito Mussolini, The Head of the State, The Leader of Fascismo, permitted a fair trial last week to onetime Socialist. Deputy Tito Zaniboni (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) who was arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death...
...details, unusually gruesome, included poisoned whiskey, picture wire, binding, gagging, taking turns at skull-smashing with a window-weight, and $104,000 in life insurance...
...Connecticut farmhouse, Inventor Arthur S. Ford, a comfortably built man with a generous mustache, played with a paintbrush and window screen. Filling up the wire squares with paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into...
...fashioned bathing suit that reaches to her knees. She presents documents from the Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary, Schwab, et al., testifying that she is the most efficient stenographer in the U. S. After glancing at the recommendations, Bernarr glances at the applicant. Forthwith she is thrown out of the window...