Word: backer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...Mayor Dever and his backer George Brennan he howled: "Dever and Brennan are a disgrace to the Irish blood. They are the worst two-faced hypocrites who ever came to my attention. They circulated a cartoon called 'Thompson Kissing a Negro.' Is that what Dever and decency means...
...Rothafel's new Roxy Theatre, largest cinema house in the world (6,200 seats) and eleven more "Roxy" theatres now abuilding, for $15,000,000. Twenty years ago William Fox began business with the smallest theatre in Manhattan (146 seats). One Herbert Lubin is "Roxy's" money backer...
...those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries the leading lady of the "Wells", Miss Trelawny. This is one of Dramatist Pinero's early plays, yet it does not have the mutton-chop sleeves of his later pity-poor-Paula...