"Electric fan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with "pure buttermilk." He'll be in more difficult situations before he is done, I'm thinking. An electric fan above him that keeps the buttermilk "pure" and flies the American flag ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey
... and moistened his lips. The room seemed suddenly very hot, notwithstanding the fact that an obnoxious electric fan was sending a current of cool air down the back of ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... long seat, his head joggling against the dusty window, his mind sleepily recalling, round by round, a certain prize fight that had held him in Reno over the Fourth and had cost him some money and much disgust. The clicking of the car trucks directly underneath, the whirring of the electric fan over his head, the reek of tobacco smoke seemed to him to last for hours, seemed likely to go on forever. Above it all, rising stridently now and then in a disagreeable monotone, the harsh, faintly snarling voice of ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... admitted to quiet, padded rooms, containing everything which is necessary to separate hopeful persons from their money. In one room a number of book-makers were whiling away the hot afternoon with poker for small stakes. In another room, played upon by an electric fan, sat Mr. Lichtenstein, the proprietor. He was bent over a table on which he had assembled fifteen or twenty of the component parts of a very large picture-puzzle. He was small, plump and earnest. ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris
... discovery sitting in the draught of an electric fan. He looked up, made a mental note; and next morning he moved his office "comforter'' out to the head of one file of machines. The draught tangled the goods under the seamstresses' hands at times, but the half dozen girls within range showed a decided increase in production over the day before ...
— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott
... summer when it is hot the same electric current will start a small artificial storm (an electric fan) which keeps ...
— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
