Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight down the roll to "M" read Il Duce, never moving a muscle until he came to his own name. "Mussolini!"-his right hand shot...
...picture receiving sets, now on sale in London, have a small radio panel and a large synchronized clockwork cylinder on which the portrait or cartoon appears in an elapsed receiving time of about four minutes...
...consequence harmonious bouquets of orchids were numerous. The most striking jeweled ornament to be worn was a $150,000 diamond sunburst originally presented to Admiral Lord Nelson by the Sultan of Turkey, and now owned by Mrs. G. Eyre-Matcham of Salisbury, England. The sunburst, operated by clockwork, revolved slowly, emitting dazzling rays which visibly attracted the attention of Their Majesties...
...blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have been Those...
They played the first set without either young woman ever coming within 20 feet of the net. Miss Wills, smashing like clockwork, won 6-2. She seemed to have regained and even surpassed the magnificent speed and rallying power which she possessed before her operation for appendicitis...