Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday's meet, Playfair will face McCluskey and the Italian ace Cerati, who conquered the N.Y.A.C. runner this summer. Other probable entrants include Malcolm Millard '36, in the discus and Richard Johnson '36, in the javelin. Milon G. Green '36, will be entered in the high hurdle and may also try the broad lump, while Edwin E. Calvin '35, is a possible candidate for honors in the 100-meter and the 400-meter relay...
After he left Princeton in 1917 he became a captain in the U. S. Air Force. In France he was the Army's No. 3 ace, with twelve German planes to his credit. In 1926 he started a great cycle of War-time aviation literature with War Birds, which ran serially for three months in Liberty and later became a best-selling book. War Birds was supposedly the diary of an unknown U. S. aviator, but few literary wiseacres believed that Mr. Springs did nothing more than edit the manuscript. Mr. Springs has a private airport on his estate...
...Germans who merit executive clemency, the Realmleader decreed, will be pardoned by General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Air Minister and Grand Master of the Chase, who conducted the Nazi blood purge in Berlin while Herr Hitler was purging Munich (TIME, July 9). Since Nazi Goring, a War ace grown beefy, designs a new uniform for himself every time he adds to his string of offices, Berlin buzzed with scurrilous rumors that "Hermann has sent to Oberammergau for the costume of the Saviour in which he will sign pardons...
...mauve decade, the idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes her in his arms. Miljan: "Your red lips, your white skin, your soft cheeks, your blue eyes, your. . . ." West: ''Say, is this a proposal, or are you takin' inventory...
Molly Brant (Katherine DeMille) is Ace's onetime sweetheart, who dislikes Ruby for occupying her lover's attention and is later saved by Ruby and the Kid from a fire started by Ace in the hope of destroying "Sensation House" and burning Molly alive...