Word: rubbering
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...best known symphony, "Ballet Mécanique," nearly precipitated a riot in Paris. The weird whirr of wood, rubber, steel was radical enough to set the audience howling with conflicting passions of admiration and disgust. But, in addition, the propeller was placed facing them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone...
...Rubber Tires (Bessie Love). The heroine bundles her family into a rickety automobile, sets out for California and better fortune. Literally, luck is with her, for the manufacturers advertise a huge reward for return of her car. It is the first they ever made -valuable, therefore, by way of contrast. In chasing the party across the continent, the director provides good farce...
...side is "vulnerable" as soon as it has won its first game in each rubber. Penalties against it are doubled...
Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...
Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...