Many of the buildings took the form of common objects of enormous size ( see Novelty architecture ), often advertising the items sold there, and became attractions in themselves.

The first British production of the play in its regular form opened on 7 June 1889 at the Novelty Theatre, starring Janet Achurch as Nora and Charles Carrington as Torvald.

Novelty CDs are also available in numerous shapes and sizes, and are used chiefly for marketing.

* Novelty candy shaped like skulls, pumpkins, bats, worms, etc.

* Novelty, built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite.

The last drop-out was Novelty.

A replica of Novelty was built for the event, which was also attended by replicas of Sans Pareil and Rocket ( plus coach ). The Rocket replica bent its axle in Bold Colliery railway sidings during the event and was exhibited on a low loader carriage.

Two Class 86 locomotives 86214 Sans Pareil and 86235 Novelty were painted in a variation of the Large Logo Rail Blue livery where the BR logo was replaced by Rocket 150 motif on a yellow background.

In a recent ( 2002 ) restaging of the Rainhill Trials using replica engines, neither Sans Pareil ( 11 out of 20 runs ) nor Novelty ( 10 out of 20 runs ) completed the course.

Novelty almost matched it in terms of efficiency, but its firebox design caused it to gradually slow to a halt due to a build up of molten ash ( called " clinker ") cutting off the air supply.

* Novelty piano-A piano composition emphasizing speed and complexity which emerged after World War I.

* November 18 – Yoyoy Villame, Philippine Novelty singer and movie actor ( d. 2007 )

He also performed, at the invitation of his friend Fritz Putzier, in Neal Buckley's Novelty Orchestra.

Utopian Novelty Company, Chicago, U. S. A.

Other publishers are Stanley Piltz, Tichnor and Western Publishing & Novelty Co.

Novelty.

Novelty.

" Spiked Beer " featured Welk and his Novelty Orchestra.

Novelty numbers would usually be sung by Rocky Rockwell.

The benefits of increasing the fire-tube area had also been attempted with Ericsson and Braithwaite's Novelty at Rainhill.

Their first act was called Juvenile Artists Presenting an Electric Musical Toe-Dancing Novelty.

The toys were an immediate success and Michtom founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.

An employee of the Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company, Albert J. Parkhouse of Jackson, Michigan has also been credited with the invention., as has Christopher Cann in 1876 as an engineering student at Boston University.

Blocks (" records " in IBM's terminology ) of 88, 96, 880 and 960 were often used because they related to the fixed block size of punch cards.

Modems can be added as cards ( for laptops ) or external USB devices which are similar in shape and size to a computer mouse, or nowadays more like a pendrive.

It is a small mechanical device about the size of a deck of cards.

The compact size of these files has led to their widespread use in early computers, mobile phone ringtones, webpage authoring and greeting cards.

For example, a four-player match of Oh Hell consists of twenty-three deals, from hand size 1 up to 12 ( forty-eight cards dealt and one turned face up for trump ; 13 cards cannot be dealt, as there would be no card remaining to declare trump ) and back down to 1.

Three-player and double-deck variants go up to a maximum hand size of 15 cards.

* In the Get Fred variation, the game starts with a hand size that is the largest possible number of cards ( but no greater than 9 ), reducing down to 1 card.

For example, in a 10 card deck, if a 7 card cut and a 4 card cut are made, that is, 7 cards are moved from the top of the deck to the bottom and then the resulting top 4 cards are also moved to the bottom, then those two consecutive cuts are equivalent to a cut the size of ( 7 + 4

Some PDAs use microSD cards, which are electronically compatible with SD cards, but have a much smaller physical size.

Parchment cards became larger in size and crafters began adding wavy borders and perforations.

The earliest PDP-8 model ( informally known as a " Straight-8 ") used diode-transistor logic, packaged on flip chip cards, and was about the size of a minibar-fridge.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

Each player is dealt an initial hand of the same number of cards ; the exact number of cards dealt varies, but is generally either three The size of the deck also varies ; it is good to have approximately one 52-card deck for every two or three players, but missing or extra cards are not important to gameplay.

Another popular size is ID-000 which is nominally ( commonly used in SIM cards ).

The interface has spawned a generation of flash memory cards that set out to improve on the size and features of Type I cards: CompactFlash, MiniCard ( MiniCard ), P2 Card and SmartMedia.

Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the " broadsheet size " with dimensions representing the front page " half of a broadsheet " size, rather than the full, unfolded broadsheet spread.

Small rooms, probably for cards, opened off on either side.

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

( For instance, see Example 2 of Section 5-5, on red cards in hands of 5.

The cards, filed by circonscription ( sub-chiefdom, or village ), are kept in the headquarters of each territoire ( chiefdom ).

Different cards are used for males and females, and a corner is clipped from the cards of adults, and of children when they reach puberty.

Personal identification cards are issued to all adult males on which tax payments, inoculations, periods of employment, and changes of residence are recorded.

Similar identification cards were issued in 1959 to all adult females.

The cards of permanent out-migrants are, in theory, sent to an office in the place of new residence.

More than anything, it is the therapist's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed, something like a spread-out deck of cards, on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient's and his months of work together.

The codes were key-punched into IBM punch cards and verified.

Each return required three cards and involved key punching 228 digital columns.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

The cards were then processed using standard IBM punch card equipment, including an IBM 650 computer.

The operand need not extend across the entire operand column of either the header card or continuation cards but may end with the comma following any parameter.

Illustrations of the use of continuation cards are included throughout the examples illustrating the various statements.

If a continuation card follows a statement that does not permit continuation cards, the compiler will generate a NOP and issue an error message.

Additional restrictions regarding the use of continuation cards with macro-instructions appear on page 106.

but if justice for Bantus entails driving the government of the Union of South Africa away from the West, then the Bantus must be prepared to carry their identification cards yet a while longer.

Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

The safe is a repository for three dead flashlight batteries, a hundred and fifty unused left-hand fingerprint cards, a stack of unsold Policemen's Ball tickets from last year, and thirty-seven cents in coins and stamps.

Ask the new members to meet thirty minutes before the service to complete `` talent sheets '' and pledge cards.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.