Word: canuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away the toughest airplane pilots on the North American continent are the rakehell Canuck airmen who since the '20s have lugged machinery and prospectors, food and engineers into the vast country north of Canada's twin transcontinental railroads. But Canadian airmen have had no counterpart in Canadian airplanes. During World War I Canada built 2,500 warplanes, but last year she built only 282 machines for a gross of $4,001,622, most of them U. S. models built under license (Lockheeds, Grummans, Piper Cubs). Next year it may be different...
...part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with a wide-eyed enthusiasm not shared by her rancher father...
...hesitation in the smooth Gallic flow of conversation and food, but soon the gentleman on his right asked him what his name was, in French. Considerably surprised, the young man parried with a brilliant, "Oh, Yeah" and turning to the man on his left he queried, "Do you speak Canuck, too?" Professor Morize just gave him a piercing glance...
...clubs, with such success that recently he had to decline invitations to deliver 30 per month more. Last week he reassumed his pre-War personality, gave a one-man painter's show in Manhattan. Leon Dabo was born at Detroit, Mich, into a French-Canadian family, spoke "Canuck" French in his youth. Aged 16 he went to Manhattan to study under the late famed John LaFarge, who later sent him to Puvis de Chavannes in France. That artist enrolled him in the Academie Julian, added his own instruction afterwards. Whistler was his final master. Then Leon Dabo...
...Montreal bulky Henri Deglane wriggled out of a series of headlocks and clapped a flying mare on bullet headed, cone houldered old Ed ("Strangler"; Lewis, "world's champion" of the Sandow-Bowser group of wrestlers, and flapped him over. Loudly cheered Canuck partisans, for no one had expected Deglane to get a fall. Again they wrestled. Lewis threw Deglane. But when the French-Canadian got up he grimaced pitiably, held out his right arm, showed toothmarks, swore that Lewis had bitten him. Indignant, the referee conferred with athletic commissioners, awarded the fall, the bout, the championship, to Deglane. Indignant...