Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military pyramid, Chief of Staff MacArthur has at his right hand a Deputy: Major General George S. Simonds, a brilliant onetime commandant of the War College and former armaments adviser to the Geneva Disarmament Conference...
...countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen pyramid" (crossword puzzle whose bottom line has 17 letters, top one). Most useful contribution was a new longest word in the English language, 45-letter "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis," to replace 28-letter "antidisestablishmentarianism." The new one means a kind of silicosis caused by particles...
...York. Only occasionally is Producer Dowling on view, for that old-time song-&-dance man (Follies) modestly limits his appearance to a few skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
Egypt. Near the pyramid of Senusret at Lisht, 30 mi. south of Cairo, in clay undisturbed since the Twelfth Dynasty, an expedition of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory...
...minutes of film in which appears no person, no utilitarian thing. It is an attempt to provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...