Word: wiredness
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¶ The New York contingent of the Stahl-helm (200) smuggled uniforms off German boats, owned six German military rifles, held drills, occasionally used guns borrowed from the National Guard, which many of them were encouraged to join by a Sergeant Gottlieb Haas. C. From Detroit, Henry Ford, who once...
Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound...
Meeting in Jackson, Miss. last week was the quadrennial general conference of his Church which four years ago had acquitted the Bishop on the same charges. Before boarding a Washington train to carry him to that conference Bishop Cannon piously wired ahead:
From Rome, Senator Guglielmo Marconi wired his London associates: "I hope to surprise you in a year or two as I surprised you in 1901 with transmission across the Atlantic."
In the churches the organ remained while inventors experimented with hand bellows, gas and water motors, wood and metal pipes, stops to ape the tone quality of almost every known instrument. Wheezy and unreliable were the small irreverently named "God boxes" once pumped by Senator James Couzens, President Richard Whitney...