Word: daredevils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing...
...make all the Fairs. Nowadays the auto races are three times as popular as the trotters, for the artful speedsters have learned to go through fences without injury, are able to provide a breath-taking accident almost every race. Most hairraising spectacle of all was provided last week by Daredevil "Clem" Sohnn "the bat man," who thrice ascended in an airplane, thrice leaped out in midair, soaring and looping toward earth on his canvas wings (TIME, March...
...average layman your photograph of the gutted daredevil represents practically anything connected with aviation. If you don't believe it, show some disinterested friend of yours that picture and then offer him an airplane ride. . . . This same photograph ran in this paper because I noticed it too late to do anything about...
...Emmy Sonnemann. Whatever she is, she does not look Jewish. During the War she clerked in a Hamburg candy shop. Göring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille. Three years ago Emmy was introduced to Hermann by Adolf...
...Ceiling Zero, Dizzy Davis, presented as the daredevil-great lover of the aeronautical world, goes back to work for Federal Air Lines at Newark, where he disrupts a pure romance between a hostess and the chief pilot, is partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance...