Word: flier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-shot bet-he will not have proved very much. That might be too bad, because his veterinarian would probably say "I told you so" instead of looking up the literature. Perhaps Lloyd's who are said to insure anything, might be asked to take a flier on insuring the heifer...
Summing up the cases for and against affiliation Sutro, in a flier distributed Monday, says...
...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan...
Most hair-raising escape from death was that of Germany's baldish, grinning Major-General Ernst Udet, Germany's No. 1 stunt flier whose stunts include flicking a handkerchief off the ground with his wingtip and who apparently bears a charmed life. After the War, in which he brought down 62 Allied planes, Udet was forced to bail out more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing...
...Isadore Polisuk, a Bronx dress manufacturer, went down to a Greenwich Village little theatre to see Hard Pan, an 1849 gold-digging drama by one Edward Eustace. Mr. Polisuk was anxious to take a flier in show business, where shoestrings occasionally lead to fortunes. He offered Mr. Eustace Sioo for his play. Playwright Eustace took...