Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly fail to call up visions of successful procurers you have known...
...yard within. Many is the discouraged student who finally recrosses Massachusetts Avenue, to wile away the hours in Felix's, and later is found run over behind. Widener with a copy of the Daily worker in his already cold hand. True, a few shrewder individuals have been able to crash through to the inner regions, but it has only been after untold waiting and hair-breadth escapes from the rock-laden trucks that tear through Widener Gate to dump their loads elsewhere and race back to mash more book-carrying, hurrying, seersuckered miserables...
...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
Last week Walter Winchell rushed into type with the lowdown on those saucers in the sky (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). They were flying wings, said Walter; he knew all about it, including details of a Montana crash. Wrote Winchell: ". . . in 1943 an American firm . . . pioneering in jet-propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead...
When that story appeared in print before, it was frankly labeled fiction. In a short story about supersonic flight, in the April 5 Saturday Evening Post, one of Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...