Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese passengers, including two women, a young child and a baby. Half-hour later, as the liner scudded over swampy Chinese delta lands, eleven Japanese planes came tearing in from the direction of the Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then three minutes later: "Forced land river: all safe...
...crown sheet," which fits over the locomotive boiler's end separating the water chamber from the fire box, had given way. The water drenched the fires and steamed, scalding, into the cab. The ultimate dissipation of the locomotive's steam pressure had set the air brakes, averting calamity. In railway air brake systems, air compressed by a head of steam keeps the brakes off the wheels. When the steam head is released, the air valve opens, letting the air escape and clamping on the brakes...
...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...
...nose-blowing, said the New York State Department of Health last week, there are many schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular custom of gripping the end of the nose with the handkerchief, for it closes the nostrils, backfires the nose into the ear tubes or sinuses. When the nose is in good hearty shape, the grip method may not be harmful, but "when it is diseased, beware...
...end of the day the legend of the Women in Black was more Hollywood than ever. Russell Birdwell, chief press-agent for Selznick International, told a story: Ten years ago, when he was producing one-reelers on the Hollywood scene, he paid a blonde young lady $5 to pose by the Valentino tomb. The story of the annual visit he made up out of his own head. When the first Woman in Black showed up next year with her bunch of red roses, no one was more surprised than Russell Birdwell...