Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genially Bevan said: "The right honorable gentleman thinks that he is the leader of the Conservative Party." In a whisper like muted flutes: "But he is not, he is not!"-the inflection rising mockingly on each "not." Finally the crash of brasses: "He is their decoy...
...James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
Died. Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg), 38, baritone crooner who progressed from second-string popularity in the '305 to recent high ranking among radio groaners; in the crash of a private airplane; in Los Angeles...
Empty Saddle. In Vernon, Tex., veteran Cowpoke Tony Hazelwood, riding herd on the fall roundup, cracked three ribs in the crash of his bucking helicopter...
Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change...