Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls on a sofa. Trite shot: a scene of revelry which reaches its peak when Monroe Owsley tries to prove he is sober by walking in a straight line...
Next day nine Marine planes were doing "coiled-spring" loops in single file across the sky. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, loudly audible to the crowd 2,000 ft. below. Two planes, piloted by Lieuts. L. H. ("Sandy") Sanderson and W. O. Brice, had collided. As their planes fell, the crowd heard Lieut. Emile Chourre. standing before a microphone on the field, calmly broadcast the event as if it were part of the entertainment. Said he: "Keep your seats everybody and watch for the boys to come out. Two of them will shortly join the Caterpillar Club. Here they...
...editors agreed last week that Hungary's financial plight, the closing of her banks at the time of the German crash, the government's emergency decrees to prevent the exporting of money, were the basis of Count Bethlen's troubles. Matters grew acute some weeks ago when Count Bethlen, faced by a growing opposition among the deputies, appointed, before Parliament adjourned, a committee of 33 to help him govern the country by decree...
...others: Giovanni Monti, killed three weeks ago at Lake Garda; Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, died of injuries after a test flight crash last May; Tomaso Dal Molin, killed testing a plane in 1930; Lieut. Bonnet killed training for the races in 1929; Capt. Giuseppe Motta, killed testing a plane for the 1929 races; Lieut. F.R. Buse whose plane crashed on the Potomac in 1928; Lieut. Kinkead who crashed on the Solent...
...broken propeller caused a trimotored Ford transport of American Airways, Inc. to crash last week just after taking off from Cincinnati's Lunken Airport, killing both pilots, all four passengers...