Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities. First step was a display of testimonials to the courtesy, cleanliness, service, honesty & sobriety of American crews. Not the least expert among them was a wire from restless Cornelius Vanderbilt: "I have been up all night during storms and have never yet seen anything being destroyed by the crew...
...busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough...
...finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs. One of only four dogs which have twice won Westminster's Best in Show-all four were fox terriers-was John Bates's wire Ch. Pendley Calling of Blarney, in 1930 and 1931. Seven times Bates has been chairman of Westminster Shows. For many years he raised Irish terriers. Nowadays, he shoots over twelve pointers four of which are show-ring champions...
...colleagues, a physicist and another psychologist, and journeyed to Boston to make a scientific report on a Margery seance. They were allowed to feel "ectoplasmic rods" supposedly sprouting from her thighs, but came to the conclusion afterwards that the rods were animal intestines stuffed with cotton and stiffened with wire...
...Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...