Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Abercrombie & Fitch, Manhattan sporting goods store, imported a pair of water skis, sold them to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. This summer a Brooklyn German named Ernst has been cavorting in a pair on Long Island Sound...
...Lieut. Ernst Udet was, next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...
...discuss his book President Hoover and American Individualism), President Richard Waldo of Mc-Clure Newspaper Syndicate (to report on business conditions after a 10,000-mi. U. S. trip), Editor John B. Chappie of the Ashland, Wis. Daily Press (to denounce the Brothers La Follette as Communists), General Superintendent Ernst Stoltenhoff of Coblenz, Germany (to say "How do you do, Mr. President...
...over from the Schmeling-Stribling prize fight which baptized the Stadium (TIME, July 13). Associate stage director, who helped design with simple grandeur the sets used on the six nights, was Laurence Higgins, a 25-year-old native son. Directing his work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...
...received birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...