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Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress, model and socialite who was one of Andy Warhol's superstars, starring in several of his short films during the 1960s. [1] Her prominence led to her being dubbed an "It Girl", [2] [3] while Vogue magazine named her a "Youthquaker". [4]
A simple dumbwaiter is a movable frame in a shaft, dropped by a rope on a pulley, guided by rails; most dumbwaiters have a shaft, cart, and capacity smaller than those of passenger elevators, usually 45 to 450 kg (100 to 992 lbs.) [2] Before electric motors were added in the 1920s, dumbwaiters were controlled manually by ropes on pulleys.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed.
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971), American actress and model; Edward Sedgwick (1892–1953), American movie director, writer, actor and producer; Eileen Sedgwick (1898–1991), American actress, sister of Edward
Sedgwick signed with MGM in the late 1920s. There, he found a kindred spirit in fellow baseball buff Buster Keaton.Sedgwick (known informally as "Ed" or "Junior") directed most of Keaton's MGM features: The Cameraman, Spite Marriage, Free and Easy, Doughboys (in which Sedgwick appears on screen as a dumb soldier), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, Speak Easily, and What!
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
A dumbwaiter (lit. "silent waiter") is a small freight elevator. Dumbwaiter may also refer to: Lazy Susan, a small rotating table to serve food on a table; The Dumb Waiter, a 1957 one-act play by Harold Pinter; Dumb Waiters, a 1980 album by The Korgis "Dumb Waiters" (song), a 1981 song by the Psychedelic Furs