Word: zigs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
...sunset over the hills of Valley Forge this afternoon was by far more beautiful than the combined charms of. "Zig's" gallery or perhaps even Hank himself...
Sirs: The quality of "modesty" in your correspondent Alphonse J. Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...