Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bollinger uses two devices to tone his planes down. Most airplane noise comes from air currents around fast-moving propeller tips. The engines are therefore geared down to make the blades move slower, and four-bladed props are used instead...
...minded youngster around Chicago, chunky George T. Baker bought an old plane and barnstormed around the Midwest and Florida. Later, in Miami, he started National Airlines, Inc. with one plane, and made money by doubling as mechanic, ticket salesman and hangar-sweeper. By 1944, when he was operating seven planes, the Civil Aeronautics Board was so impressed by his line that it awarded him such rich scheduled routes as the New York-Miami and Miami-Havana runs. Overnight the onetime feeder line became one of the potentially richest trunkline carriers...
...River (Howard Hawks-United Artists). When people discuss the real art ists in picturemaking, they seldom get around to mentioning Howard Hawks. Yet Hawks is one of the most individual and independent directors in the business. Even when he has a vapid chore to do, he gives it character; when a picture really interests him, he gives it enough character to blast you out of your seat. Red River, which Hawks produced and directed, clearly interested him a lot. It is a rattling good outdoor adventure movie...
Nothing really affected father Sitwell's innate dignity-not even his habit of crawling on all fours around his house, a Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...
...Example: "Kiss your husband one last kiss he can take around the world before you give him another . . . Now I'm going to give you a big geographical kiss that'll bring you good luck and keep you warm in the Aleutians and keep you cool in the Caribbean...