Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty Frau Stimming drives a Buick and her husband a snorting, supercharged Mercedes. Whenever he is in a hurry he flies, and he is always in a hurry, though his mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low...
After dog teams had started for the mountains, Commander Byrd with Malcolm Hanson and Dean Smith chanced a flight to what disaster they knew not. They found the first party miserable but safe in a wind-ripped, snow-clogged tent. A 150 m. p. h. gale had blown their heavy...
A gob of road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring...
Disappointed in motor cars, Mr. Buick determinedly tried his luck in other fields, and always with unfortunate results. He went to California and organized an oil company. To finance the oil company he sold much of his automobile stock. Then title litigation wrecked the oil company? expensive litigation that consumed...
This conquering lover of the loud ocean was born in 1877 near the murmuring mills of Worcester, Mass. He is silver-haired and very shy. After the Antinöe disaster, the wife of the rescued captain tried to thank Rescuer Fried. "It is only one of the little things that...