Word: blond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trifling 600-lb. plane tested at Akron, Ohio, last week by Vearne Clifton Babcock, designer. Wings taper from narrow tips to broad bases at the fuselage. The fuselage is slim, rudder and stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...
...different. Most sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, are glad to do that. In the present campaign, many a famed descendant has been active or at least visible. Grandson Arthur Smith Jr., aged 30 months, sang "Sidewalks of New York" for the "talkies" last month. Son Arthur Smith, a blond young man of 21, last week took up speechmaking. He asked support for the "courageous and honest leader of the Democratic Party" and said: "You know I am the luckiest boy in the world to receive my first vote in time to cast it for the man I have the honor...
Candidate Hoover was described by Willis J. Abbot as "a stocky blond . . . who always wears a Derby hat!"?although he almost never wears one, and although even morons know that the "Derby" is the symbol of Candidate Smith. Incidentally the picture of Candidate Hoover published by Britannia showed him soft-hatted. Willis J. Abbot added that Herbert Hoover "looks like a 'Herb...
There was no fatted calf, no purple robe, no new ring for his finger when Leopold Stokowski stepped up on the dais last week for the season's first Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Academy of Music. But there was the same blond halo and the wildest acclaim Philadelphians permit themselves. Their prodigal was home and great was the rejoicing. He had had them worried.. All manner of mystic rumors had drifted in from his Far East trip. He would return. He would not return. He had been hypnotized by Indian and Javanese music. At best he could...
...cement take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking...