Word: artificiales
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Once a year do the prime teatasters of the U. S. gather for this function. Their duty: to safeguard U. S. tea-buyers from tea that is below standard quality and purity. Each year about 100,000,000 pounds of tea are offered for U. S. importation. In 1922, 1.85...
Fake Alps. In Switzerland, sensitive students attended a performance of a U. S. film entitled King of the Bernina, discovered that the advertised Swiss scenes were really taken in Alaska. Enraged at the artificial Alps, they paraded the streets of Zurich, forced the theatre manager to stop showing the film...
Explorers in the Galapagos Islands have discovered a man and a woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year's supplies. They learned that the sun...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against...
The story being operatically artificial, Director Lionel Barrymore was entitled to use scenery both beautiful and absurd. But he need not have made the tale of love and hate so limp. Passion never touches the audience, which is delighted whenever Comedians Laurel & Hardy and buttocks of the horses in their...