Word: pulleys
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
Reynaud and Mandel were quartered in the left wing. Reynaud, who has cycled for fun and sport for many years, was reported to have asked for a stationary bicycle to keep his trim little legs in shape, a pulley weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history...
...private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...