Word: aproned
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...just above the Equator and midway between Africa and South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen...
...bedroom. Two Nazis came downstairs, went outside to confer with their friends. Suddenly the telephone line was cut. One huge young man with a pale face and staring eyes went back upstairs alone. There were shots in Dr. Bell's bedroom. A porter, rushing up in his green apron, was shot through the hip. Dr. Bell was dead, his roommate Major Hell severely wounded. The Nazis sped away...
...timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, spoils their fun. Finally friends...
...going to be a long earthquake. At 6:06 p. m. (Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...apron girl is paid 2½? per apron. Her daily output nets...