Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold three-day rain, Chief Hoover's men at Miami set to work. He himself arrived by chartered plane and 14 more G-men flew in after him. Divers groped in old limestone quarries and pools; volunteer speedboats toured the keys; Seminoles and white trappers searched in the poisonous Everglades; planes scoured the wide, wild tip of the peninsula-all looking for a child they no longer expected to find alive...
Married. Lily Pons, 33, operatic and cinematic soprano; to Andre Kostelanetz, 36, orchestra leader who two years ago flew 126,000 miles shuttling between New York, where he conducted, and Hollywood, where he courted ("I proposed to Lily every time I went out"); in a tea house on Miss Pons's estate at Silver Mine, Conn. Maid of honor: Soprano Geraldine Farrar. Guests: Sopranos Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout...
...funeral parlor proprietor of Anadarko, Okla., was Hard Luck Harry of the whole U. S. last week-and its most indefatigable airplane rider. Mr. Whisenhunt received a telegram saying that his wife was near death in a Kansas City hospital. Leaving a daughter seriously ill with whooping cough, he flew to Kansas City, found his wife better. He received a message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back...
...broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after his car turned over three times and one of its wheels flew into the infield, killing a spectator perched atop a truck...
Died. Sally Clement Bridges, 35, second wife of Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Concord, N. H. Informed of his wife's sudden illness, Senator Bridges flew from Washington to Concord (375 miles), arrived six minutes too late...