Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent the closing of the door by hand, it interfered with the aim of the automatic closing device. The door failed to close when the film began to burn and the gases (both poisonous and explosive) issuing forth, were driven through the building by a ventilating fan a few feet away...
There is a word to be said for inter varsity competition. It may not be British, but it is invigorating and manly. Annual big games are exciting and fan for both the spectator and participant. They have become American institutions. They are colorful, inspiring, even cultural. They are colossal symbols of our national spirit...
Before "The Merkle Incident" was written, TIME wrote John Evers, now Coach for the Boston Braves, for the true version of the play. Evers says McGinnity struggled with Tinker, not with him, as Fan Swenson declares. The Evers letter...
...spirit of The Sportsman is not that of the common or (Boston) garden fan. The Sportsman is the American equivalent of the Earl of Lonsdale. It wears the tallest of tall gray hats. It rides to hounds, and it does more; it hounds its readers to ride. Steeplechasing, polo, the court games, and its more gentlemanly side of aviation are its favorite themes. There is no humor in these things, but plenty of fun can be poked at their devotees. The Lampoon has done a good...
...straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia, of which a notable appointment was a royal bed eight feet wide. Later Gaby danced in the Folies Bergeres, toured the U.S. with many a huge and fluttery fan, smiled at wisecracks about Manuel and died in Paris of a throat infection following influenza. The Amelia was sold to U.S. Oilman Henry Clay Pierce who renamed her the Yacona. In turn he disposed of her to the U.S. for use in the Philippines where she was given her third...