Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...
...stripped naked. His hands were bound to a bough above his head. He was beaten to death with pine knots. Such was his punishment for "molesting" 22-year-old Blanche Abram. While drunk he had forced her into his automobile, driven furiously, almost hit a truck. careened into a ditch, knocking the girl unconscious. Such were the facts, reported last week by officers of Caddo Parish, of a curious lynching-curious because not only Grafton Page but also Blanche Abram and all members of the lynching bee were Negroes...
Palestine. In the city of Lachish, 35 mi. southwest of Jerusalem, King Rehoboam, son of Solomon, built a great wall. Beyond the wall some seasons ago a deep ditch was found. Clearing away the filling this year a British expedition led by J. L. Starkey uncovered, 60 ft. below the city level, a temple erected long before Rehoboam's wall. It was first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this...
...Epsom Downs, a dark, rainy morning cut the crowd to 500,000. Lord Lonsdale's car slithered into a ditch and he arrived late. When he entered the Royal Box, the King, without a single detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday...
...Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who set out in 326 to find Christ's tomb and the True Cross. In Jerusalem she found the Holy Sepulchre, built a basilica on the spot. She met a Jew named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent the garment called the Holy Coat...