Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last weekend, A. R. P. News readers got a little clearer view of the shape of things that may come. Britain staged its first large-scale blackout, including almost all southern England except London. Planes flew in from the coast to test the skill of volunteer "spotters" and searchlight crews. On vacant lots bombs were exploded to give the volunteer firemen, decontaminators and first-aid crews practice in rushing through darkened streets to danger spots. Observers in the air watched for lights that would be a giveaway to enemy aviators. The blackout, pronounced a success, was on an entirely volunteer...
...State's airplane," rejoined General Louis Guerre of the State Police. At this juncture Earl Long settled the row: Dr. Smith should come back by plane, in custody of one State policeman, one local investigator. Mrs. Smith would follow by train, also in custody. The plane flew to Brockville, flew back again without Dr. Smith when he refused to be separated from his wife. Eventually Dr. Smith & wife, with Louisiana officers, set off for Baton Rouge in Dr. Smith's auto. Dr. Smith declared himself in a hurry to get back to fight the charges against...
...Bridge returned to school the following Monday, he came with a bodyguard, a seaman friend named Morton Rosen, 19. Also tagging along were some 30 boys, mostly Jewish, from Baltimore's City College (a senior high school). Outside the school they met Melvin Bridge's tormentors. Words flew, then fists. Into the fight leaped two teachers, one with a baseball bat, which he swung at Bridge's bodyguard. Police quickly squelched the battle, arrested Bodyguard Rosen...
Although tortured by advanced cancer of the jaw, Freud at first refused to leave his home. In vain did his nephew, Manhattan Publicist Edward Bernays, plead with him to spend his last days in the U. S. He surrendered only when London's famed Dr. Ernest Jones flew to Vienna with a cargo of shrewd arguments...
...Dayton, Ohio, 67-year-old Orville Wright, who with his late brother Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane (at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 1903), took a 30-minute ride on the DC-4, biggest U. S. commercial landplane; his first flight in ten years. Said he: "It was a wonderful and delightful experience...