Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting and important is the middle part of the picture where the love story is practically forgotten and there is shown a journalistic record of a perilous and picturesque method of earning a livelihood. Producer Frissell secured an old-time sealing boat, the Viking, and the services of Captain Bob Bartlett, who skippered Admiral Peary to the Pole and has since realized handsomely on the exploit, to sail it. Better still, he secured a cast of 250 Newfoundland "swilers," photographed them honestly engaged in a real seal-hunt...
...invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there has been no U. S. submarine catastrophe to give it vital testing. And for the Davis "lung" none until last week...
...book, as might be expected, is dedicated to Bob Lampoon, the only living nephew of Sarah Lampoon, last of the white witches and inspiration of the work. An appropriate frontispiece depicting Sarah herself in her necromantic glory is contained in the work, also a well selected passage from the witches' incantation in "Macbeth...
Year ago in Los Angeles appeared a new local monthly magazine called The Critic of Critics. Its announced aim was "to rid the city of such persons as Mayor Porter, Rev. Robert ["Fighting Bob"] Shuler, and show up other long hairs who try for fame or money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine...
...Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...