Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous...
...vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food dangled by a stick in a circle, thereby lifting water from a well to run down a chute, over a fire and out of a faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened...
...brisk wind was at their heads as the 2-year-olds thundered out of Joseph E. Widener's famed chute onto the 6¾-furlong straightaway. Though Mr. Widener built his straightaway so that there would be no crowding at the first turn, all horses learn to make for the rail on the left in their normal racing.* Last week's Futurity was no exception. There was considerable crowding to the left for the first half of the distance. And in the last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider...
...crowd of 70,000 waiting in the stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...
...they like to call "America's Wasserkuppe" (Elmira), Guenther Groenhoff, No. 1 soaring pilot of Germany, took off from the real Wasserkuppe, in the Rhoen Mountains, to ride before a thunderstorm. At about 250 ft. his sailplane's rudder carried away. Pilot Groenhoff jumped but his 'chute had no time to open. He plunged into a wood, was killed...