Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night labors at the Cleveland convention, the new chairman sped to Chicago, to Topeka, to New York, to Washington; in July swung through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Back in Chicago, he set up a sketchy national headquarters, bundled his personal staff into a ten-passenger airplane, flew West. In 17 days, during which he averaged three speeches per day and four hours sleep per night, he swept 6,500 miles through 16 States...
Because of three spectacular withdrawals, his competitors were less formidable than they were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race...
...prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew a thousand feet higher. The trip was a cinch...
...ground flew up and hit him in the face...
Astonished Balkan natives beheld last week the spectacle of a great white yacht from which small white objects flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered...