Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
Eight years ago, as Charles A. Lindbergh peered at the lights of France through the periscope of his Spirit of St. Louis, he dreamed of a huge airliner which would some day span oceans on regular commercial schedule. Last week such an airliner, final fruition of Lindbergh's dream, soared up from San Francisco Bay, droned westward on the first flight of a regular commercial schedule across the Pacific Ocean...
...good terms with his men, Capt. Musick says little in the air, other than the necessary commands, prefers to sit in silent attention to his work. Typical was an incident on the first Hawaii flight to test the vast preparations for fulfilling Lindbergh's Pacific dream. At the wheel, Pilot Sullivan grinned: "Old stuff this. We've flown this route so many times in training I've recognized every cloud we've seen since leaving San Francisco...
...sophisticated tunes by Rodgers & Hart. Where the old Hippodrome shows raised spectators' hair with a troupe of girls who descended into a pool never to come up again, Mr. Rose exhibited his silvered and spangled idea of what a circus might look like in a child's dream. Both the old and the new Hippodrome spectacles were pervaded with the smell of elephants, were filled to the brim with good clean entertainment, were calculated to appeal to the rich & poor with a $3 top and a 40? bottom, were bound to please both young...
Half a dozen fine big show girls ("dream women" to Mr. Rose) mounted on horseback and wearing the world's lowest decolletage...