Word: corsair
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...chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under one arm, a bag of money in one hand, a hat bearing skull & bones and the word "Corsair" (Morgan yacht) on his head. The fourth costume was striped trousers and shirt, a green-flowered apron, blue gloves, green-rimmed spectacles, shears, trowel. Title: "Gardening Frock, for Horticultural Moments...
Officials of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried hard to conceal their excitement over an airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for observation, with interchangeable sea and land undercarriages. But its wings and fuselage bore the red-white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting...
...swirling mist until their fuel ran low, one Boeing after another came down. Some found North Island; others reached Lindbergh Field across the bay; some landed on Army's Rockwell Field. One was demolished, one burned, several nosed over. No pilot was hurt. Meanwhile the two Corsairs continued to mill about in the peasoup. The only nearby field not fog-shrouded, an unused port near Camp Kearny, was hastily floodlit by the headlights of hundreds of volunteer motorists, but the Corsair pilots could not know about that...
...Vought Corsair with a Pratt & Whitney radial engine of 14 cylinders built in two banks of seven cylinders each, back to back, to deliver 625 hp. from 14 cylinders, with the head resistance of only seven cylinders...
...lacks the tunes which have made Rigoletto and Trovatore hurdy-gurdy matter. The plot is a complicated brew of political intrigue, kidnapping and poisoning which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov of Basso Feodor Chaliapin. From beginning...