Word: flier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice snapped: "Two years ago the whole Pacific Fleet was sent out for one woman flier [Amelia Earhart...
...which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
Lanky, tousle-mopped Amelia Earhart, whom the Pacific swallowed two years ago, flew the Atlantic twice: in 1928 with a pilot (she never touched the controls); in 1932 solo. Soaring Wings, a family memoir by her publicity-loving husband, George Palmer Putnam, is full of scrappy, discursive trivia (Flier Earhart kept bowls of little yellow tomatoes around the house to eat at random, slept three nights in a new flying coat to get it suitably wrinkled) but does manage to tell how this four-year air change came about...
...nonsmoker, Flier Earhart endorsed Lucky Strikes to get the $1,500 she wanted to give the first Byrd Antarctic expedition. She liked meeting fellow celebrities. The Prince of Wales agreed with her that fliers made good dancers, after which they spent an evening together proving it. But when Amelia Earhart's plane disappeared in the Pacific she was doing the thing she liked best...
Tireless Editor Grey often toiled 16 hours at a stretch before tooling off in his Wolseley to his Kingston-on-Thames home, nine miles from London (he is married, has a girl, 7, a boy, 9, who wants to be a flier). Most of his philippics he rasped into a dictaphone at crack of dawn before shaving and bathing. But last week Charles Grey Grey's dictaphone was muted. If he was for once muffled, however, he was far from subdued. Asked by newsmen if he would work with the Government, die-hard Editor Grey snorted: "Not with this...