Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much merriment was caused by the way the racers flew! However, there is some explanation for wandering in the fact that none of the contestants (I believe) had ever been over the course before. A collision between two planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some pilots, to the strong wind on the sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone...
...Fortnight ago at the Arkansas Democratic State Convention, Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
Painted white with yellow wings and re-christened The American Nurse, the Bellanca monoplane was the ship that Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn flew, by fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American...
...blue Buick flew along the road toward Plymouth, and at its wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...
...will made out by Paul Bern in favor of Mrs. Dorothy Bern. An insurance broker said that ten years ago "Bern told me of his wife who was then ... an inmate of an institution for the insane in New York State." Paul Bern's brother Henry, who flew from Newark to Hollywood to attend the inquest, declared that Miss Millette had been a sanitarium patient. His sister, Mrs. William Marcus, said Paul lived with Miss Millette. "brought her into the family as his wife," but never married her. Fat-faced Brother Henry revealed that the real name...