Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King George heard the crash, the screams, heard the band stop playing. He sent an equerry hurrying out to learn what had occurred. Long before the equerry or ambulances arrived, the felled sentry had righted himself and was standing at stiff attention again, the Brigade of Guards officers were going right on barking commands as though nothing at all had happened...
When the U. S. Senate's Banking & Currency Committee and its Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora resumed their researches into pre-Crash financial practices of Wall Street last week, the Press and public were apathetic. Nevertheless, the show went on. First to take the stand was Clarence Dillon, smooth, cheery, Texas-born head of the banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born. Banker Dillon willingly told the Senators how to form investment trusts...
...Conant did not crash, she just slipped in. "I did not get an invitation," we heard her confide to an ancient man of the faculty, "but I just came over to see, and brought the children...
Died. William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, 28, heavyweight prizefighter; following a motor crash; in Macon, Ga. Stribling was motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom...
...Like all landplanes, autogiros sink in water. Excepting the case of an experimental craft in France last year, 'giro-builders can still claim that no occupant has been killed by a 'giro crash...