Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indiana's sportsman Governor, Cliff Townsend, had a little airedale pup, which would put Kansas' climbing coon hound Rudd [TIME, April 12] to shame...
...most shocking crashes in Australia's air history. Near them was the charred wreckage of the plane containing the bodies of its two pilots and two other passengers. Farther away lay the corpse of another passenger who had plunged to his death off a cliff while trying to find help in the dark. Travelers Binstead and Proud, after eight days without food, had given up hope of being found alive. They were writing last messages to their relatives when found. What they wanted to know was the score of the fifth and final cricket match between Australia and England...
...Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge at West Falmouth, Mass. In stormy weather, the spume of Buzzards Bay flies almost to the wide windows...
...page of a book which any Baltimorean would pay high to read. Title: ALONG THE RIVIERA, A True and Thrilling Love Story, by Edward Cornwall. An archaic-looking woodcut showed a British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning His Back and Howling." Publisher was billed as the Salt House Press, of No. 14 East Hamilton Street, Baltimore...
...concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march, one on Cliff Battles...