Word: draughting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried Englishmen, who see the bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
...Great Lady this glamorous career of sin and scandal becomes as exciting as a sleeping draught. In vain Actress Norma Terris, as Madame Jumel, flaunts her jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...variety which has never been seen in this part of the country, usually being confined to the great timber stands of the West coast, he said. They will be of the type known as "crown fires" where the flames shoot to a height of 500 feet, creating a mighty draught which throws burning brands half a mile ahead of the main blaze and makes it absolutely uncontrollable...
...designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling said sadly: "Today was Rudy's 29th birthday. ... I guess he died the way he would have wanted to. He worked hard running our garage...
...predecessors still needs official corroboration, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. which supplied most of his gas and oil, was delighted to tender him a banquet. Obligingly, he unscrewed a light bulb from the chandelier, smashed it to bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet of the Christ of the Andes for a blessing...