Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed gathered joyfully, pointing skyward at the first German military escadrille to take the air officially since the Fatherland was beaten, exulting over & over "Those are our planes! Our planes!" Proudest of all was the grim old dowager Baroness von Richthofen, mother of Germany's late greatest war ace. To her wrote General Goring, Air Minister and Premier of Prussia...
...Mississippi contains an engaging quintet of singing pickaninnies called The Cabin Kids and three good songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: "It's Easy to Remember," "Down By the River," "Soon." Fields is at his best in a poker game sequence in which he frantically draws ace after ace when he already holds four. Curiously for cinema, Joan Bennett is cast in a role which requires her to make the initial declaration of love, the first request for a kiss...
...frankness," he orated, "this ace of American cities is not giving a good account of its stewardship as the pacesetter of business enterprise. Those whom I have been meeting recently in other sections of the country are unanimous in declaring that New York is the bluest spot in the country with respect to business morale. . . . And when New York is blue, every other section of the country is confused and confounded...
...mighty hunter before the Lord was Nimrod, but his laurels have been seriously challenged by Daniel Crockett Hoeing, History 1's ace of of aces, for early yesterday morning he came upon a muskrat prowling up and prowling down the Yard...
...Affable Ace Rickenbacker has not hobnobbed with newshawks for 25 years without learning something about the newspaper business. Last week, as general manager of Eastern Air Lines, he issued an amazingly candid order to his operating personnel. Excerpts...