Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus satisfied their curiosity, the correspondents explored the comfortable Potomac, discovered a small elevator concealed in the smokestack. This device was installed on short order by Sedgwick Machine Works of Poughkeepsie so that the President can go below decks if he wishes. Then the press flew back to Miami taking with them Uncle Frederick A. Delano and leaving the President to voyage to the fishing grounds recommended by Sir Bede...
...planes were squatting before the hangar, a French Potez, and an ancient Farman. The Potez escaped with three bullet holes, but the Farman was riddled and burned impressively. When the Italians flew away a dog and a servant in the British Legation had been wounded...
...fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither positive nor negative...
...moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME, Dec. 2). As Greek church bells tolled for Venizelos and Greek flags flew at half mast, Greek censors passed Athens dispatches in which correspondents agreed that the Venizelos party will soon evaporate, leaving a most ominous void...
...Gillespie, Ill. paid 25? apiece last Sunday to enter the local cinemansion, behold a theatrical enterprise presented under church auspices. It was written and directed by a priest, but if the miners expected a Biblical drama with cheesecloth and false whiskers, they were disappointed. On the Gillespie stage fists flew, guns roared, young lovers embraced, a mortgage was foreclosed, thugs and drunks swore, strikers rioted, a bomb went off and at one point the whole thing seemed about to go up in smoke & flame. The play: Storm-Tossed. Its author: Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, 47, of the Society of Jesus...