Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he declared: "The American people must give themselves another Boston Tea Party and this time throw the pork barrels overboard." He flayed Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech as "so much flypaper spread out in the hope of ensnaring the vote of the discontented and the discouraged." He flew to Syracuse where he addressed a crowd of G. O. Partisans on economy, whooped it up for President Hoover in his best 1928 style. Then he hustled back to Brooklyn where the State convention of the American Legion was being held. His speech there stirred old friends to lusty cheers. Busy...
...Contest Chairman Ephraim Watkins ("Pop") Cleveland. As their leader, the pilots delegated Designer E. Matthew Laird. Said Pilot Howard afterward: "If Mattie says we fly, we'll fly. If he says keep the ships on the ground, well do that." Both sides agreed to arbitrate. Meanwhile the racers flew...
Easily the Sikorsky flew to St. John. N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh. Pilot Hutchinson was emphatic in stating he would take as long as necessary to insure safety. Nevertheless the Detroit Free Press fiercely flayed the "inhumanity" of Mr. & Mrs. Hutchinson in "compelling their two children to share their perils...
...transatlantic flyer flashed across the sky last week (see above) oldtime transatlantic flyers made less conspicuous news: Brock & Schlee- In Detroit friends of round-faced William S. Brock and lean Edward Frederick Schlee took steps to restore for exhibition the monoplane Pride of Detroit in which the team flew from Detroit to Tokyo exactly five years ago. Purpose: to raise funds for Pilot Brock who lies ill of cancer in Chicago. Pilot Schlee revealed that he had paid $2.700 for the "public banquet" tendered himself and Brock upon their return from Tokyo. Post & Gatty. At the White House President Hoover...
...such rumors started in any U. S. city save one last fortnight they would have been exceedingly short-lived. But in Butte, these and many another shocking, terrifying story flew through the city, throve and multiplied like bats in darkness. For Butte's 40,000 inhabitants were without a local newspaper for two weeks...