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...virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits. Inventor Edison was so intent on maintaining the profitable novelty of his pictures in the U. S. that he neglected to patent his process abroad. The side rooms of the theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from...
...snore of the planes gave the spectators a sensation of excitement. A racing plane, with its enormous dual motors, makes a wilder sound than an ordinary plane. Spectators were reported to be so intent as to pay no attention to ad interim announcements of big football games. Yet an airplane race is better to hear than to watch. Some say that they would rather see two fleas racing across a piece of paper than the fastest planes in the world...
...Told How The Marquis de Bardelys, Favorite To His Majesty King Louis XIII, Wooed The Fair Lady Roxalanne de Lavedan On A Wager, And Won Her By True Love; And Also An Account Of How The Aforementioned Marquis de Bardelys Involved Himself In Sundry Cruel Mishaps The While Intent Upon His Naughty Errand, And Near Came By Losing His Young Head...
...humor. Do not misunderstand me when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your intent and achievements are primarily sober and serious. None the less, some line of witty perception should be discernible in a group of, how many is it now, 85,000? . . . My filled-in coupon misrepresents a situation to this extent: there is "in my family" a "female TIME reader aged...
...galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...