Word: blimped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government had been content to let Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
...vistas, and then move in on the columned portico of the Capitol for dramatic close-ups of top-hatted diplomats and politicians, skull-capped Supreme Court Justices, Arabs in flowing kaffiyas, papal knights in plumed cocked hats. The camera eye glanced up at the lazy wandering of a Navy blimp, and around at the wide lawn jammed with humanity. Then it came back to the inaugural stand as the natty, smiling little man, in whose honor the multitude was assembled, stepped onto the rostrum...
...manners-that cinemaddicts have learned to recognize as signs of artistic genius. The Red Shoes is such a spotty piece of movie craftsmanship that it is hard to believe that it is a major effort by Britain's crack moviemaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going...
...junior-sized blimp disappeared sometime on Monday night from its mooring atop the Boylston St. establishment after three days of greeting football visitors with a large "Welcome" painted on its side...
...fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...