Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked out of the hospital, thin but well, chose to return to his mother...
...Round and Around, popularized by two Manhattan night club entertainers, became an overnight sensation (TIME, Jan. 20). Quick to take the bait, Columbia rechristened the picture, signed contracts with the entertainers Eddy Farley and Mike Riley, who were then generally supposed to be the song's composers,* flew them and four members of their troupe to Hollywood, built the picture to a climax in which they sing their song. The result was hustled into U. S. cinemansions last week...
Before the resolution came up in the Senate next day, peace-lovers, led by Senators Nye, Clark and Costigan, announced they would propose a series of amendments. Three amendments were offered, defeated. Senator Nye flew from Cleveland to Washington to argue for permanent neutrality legislation but arrived only in time to see the temporary act swiftly passed without a record vote...
...Capt. Musick took off from San Francisco in the China Clipper after much flag-waving, flew with perfect precision to Manila and back in a fortnight...
According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel...