Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...
Within three days the rebels were surrounded, had taken refuge on the Ararats. Squadron after squadron flew over them, first blew the Kurds out of their caves with bombs, then dove at the survivors with rattling machine guns. One airplane was shot down. Kurds tore it to shreds, fought over the privilege of gouging out the Turkish aviator's eyes. Turkish infantry systematically burned every Kurdish village in the vicinity, shot down every Kurdish man, woman, child...
...tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers...
...ship hurtle out of the cloud, its wing trailing like a broken limb. The hull crashed to earth, disintegrating as it fell. All occupants were killed. There was no explosion, no fire. Airport officials doubted lightning was the cause, believed the pilot, trying to right the plane as it dove from the cloud, pulled back too sharply on the control stick...
...London, Commissioner of Works George Lansbury opened the Serpentine, muddy little lake in Hyde Park, to public bathing for women. Up got Kathleen Murphy from her bed in London's purlieus at 3 a. m.; to the Serpentine went she. Others dove in before the official opening hour (4:30 p. m.), were arrested, but not Kathleen Murphy. Shivering in rain she waited, was first officially authorized Serpentine woman bather. Explained Kathleen Murphy: "I've never been first in anything in my life...