Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League Covenant reinterpreted so that in no case would any country be "bound" to apply sanctions, which instead would be declared "optional." In these circumstances Premier Daladier, whose Radical Socialist Party is proverbially the middle-of-the-road group which believes anything can be handled by compromise, flew to London. Mr. Chamberlain dashed all the way out to Croydon airport (15 miles) to meet M. Daladier who beamed at the compliment, and forgotten were early French grumbles: "Since he flew to Berchtesgaden, Chamberlain should also have flown to Paris...
...year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...
Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
This week the German Dictator, in what Frenchmen saw as a most tactless gesture, came with a glittering retinue of generals to inspect Nazi war defenses on the bank of the Rhine directly across from Alsace-Lorraine. Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless...