Word: arrowing
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Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...
...silver arrow was the Yankee Doodle, Lockheed-Vega monoplane, completing its return non-stop transcontinental flight. On both flights it established records...
When the cream and chocolate Golden Arrow Express glided out of Paris, one noontime last week, a certain smooth-shaven, starched-collared, quietly dressed U. S. passenger passed unnoticed among many another en route to London. As he worked rapidly through a neat sheaf of papers, the traveler looked much like other graduates of Rutgers, other Baptists, other natives of Bloomfield, N. J. His choice of viands at luncheon was to eschew a la carte dishes and accept the table d'hote offered. Fellow passengers continued unconscious that they were actually traveling on the same train with the Agent...
...products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard Oil Co. of New York...
...means no silly giggle: it is the traditional cry of one archer to another in the distance. To the listener a pair is two; not so to the archer, for in toxophily three is a pair. To nock is to fit the string into the notch at the arrow's end. To fletch is to feather an arrow. In Queen Elizabeth's time (1533-1603) archery flourished, waned. Not until 1781 and the organization of the Royal Toxophilites Society, was there a revival...