Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which they somewhat resembled in appearance, most of these types are extinct now, were being supplanted before the War was over. Gaunt, unstable contraptions, held...
Nearly ten miles over England in the stratosphere, where the sky is almost black and the sunlight so dazzling that it hurts to look down, a big Bristol monoplane wheeled slowly last week, dragged by its straining, special Pegasus engine. Presently, satisfied that he had broken the world's airplane altitude record and could get no higher, the lone pilot in the enclosed cockpit started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about...
...motor car from Buckingham Palace was at the Vienna station and slipping behind its wheel the King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed...
Most royalist and loyalist of British Dominions statesmen is handsome, dynamic and air-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier of Australia and now the High Commissioner in London of the Dominion's Cabinet. At Bristol last week an English audience cheered Mr. Bruce to the echo when he declared that the Dominions ought to pay more than they do now of the terrific bills the Mother Country is running up for armaments. "You can rely," cried Orator Bruce, "that there will be recognition in Australia that they have got to make their contribution...
...rearing his son and daughter. She is a director of Fall River's Family Welfare Association, Historical Society, Ninth Street Day Nursery and of the League of Nations Association; advisory board member of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts and of various local WPA projects; trustee of the Bristol County Agricultural School and Fall River Public Library; secretary of Massachusetts' Democratic State Committee and vice chairman of Fall River's Democratic City Committee; member of the Fall River Women's Club, American Association of University Women, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, New England Farm and Garden Club, English...