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...employs a corps of electricians for her liturgical performances. Sometimes she puts on a Sou'wester and has the electricians flash on a stormy seascape. Amid the tumbling brine six U. S. sailors are seen rowing for a lighthouse. She has also preached astride a motorcycle, attired as a policeman, a fireman. These properties are part of a large theatrical wardrobe...
...section." Bulletins from the castle began to assure the Empire that everything was all right. Busloads of curious tourists rumbled round the locked gates of the castle. Scotsmen climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria & Albert upped her anchor...
...specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before, in trains, aircraft, rainstorms, under water...
...Colon stage was set for Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. For the role of the Infanticide Boris, Chaliapin was making up, robing in his dressing room. Wires and microphones were in readiness to flash the deep magic of Chaliapin's singing throughout the land. Time for the opening curtain neared. Suddenly, without warning, Chaliapin declared that if a single note of his were broadcast under no circumstances would he set foot on stage...
...where it was definitely established that a plane was struck by lightning. Extensive ground tests with artificial lightning conducted by Ohio Insulator Co. upon a Barling NB3 monoplane produced no material damage, but did give rise to a belief that the psychological (also blinding, deafening) effect of a lightning flash close at hand may incapacitate a pilot long enough for disaster to occur...