Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Mississippi River steadily falling, with New Orleans generally considered safe from disaster, it last week became possible to estimate with some degree of accuracy the extent of what Flood Relief Director Herbert C. Hoover has called the "greatest peacetime calamity" in U. S. history.
To anyone who knows how sensitive about such matters the true Bostonian is, how sincerely the readers of the Transcript feel such a blow, this item of news shadows the flight of Lindbergh, makes the flood a mere incident, and destroys the importance of Bozo's return to this hub...
At Hankow, seat of the most radical Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling...
He entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a...
"The Marines Have Landed" entertainingly relates the customary escapades of Jack, or in this case Captain Jinks, ashore. A grimly sentimental story, "Kupid's Konfidential Klub," tells about the death of awkward little Soldier Kemper whose speedy achievement of a great desire to be successful in the Army was...