Word: switching
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...some extent responsible for loweringmen's standards of right and wrong, especially in the case of impressionable youth. Frequent statements from the juvenile courts show the misdeed to be directly traceably to a recent movie. A boy in Connecticut not long ago caused a train-wreck by picking the switch-lock with a crowbar, a trick learned from the screen. Many young runaways, when caught, admit that their inspiration for the delights of the open road was gleaned from the silversheet...
...that is ended. When the lecturer finds himself talking into thin air, he has but to throw a switch, and behold! the New Lecture Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive...