Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pattering squealing rats approached. Frightened they retreated into neighboring fields and circumstancially related afterwards that the rats were led by an immense bull-rodent-his eyes (aa^ording to one gifted witness) "rea land glaring." While dogs bayed, horses bolted whinnying, and even motor cars were turned around for flight, the rats scurried on-turning the road into an undulant brown snake. At last the snake reached Epping Forest, slithered in, dissolved into rat-families which fought and clawed each other for the better nesting places. Shocked squirrels looked on, chattering .... Next morning outraged humans came with guns. Men-children...
Life's Centre Spread: A rooftop. Smoke from the chimneys. Two chil- dren, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "I Wonder If It's Another Non-Stop Flight...
Judge's Centre Spread: A ship's deck. Smoke from the funnels. Several passengers, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "Another Transatlantic Flight...
...bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif is all that remains. Wobblies now express their political ideas mostly through the Workers' or Communist Parties. But few Wobblies have coherent political or economic...
Will Mahoney, as he waved above a flight of stairs in his perilous and finally disastrous clog, caused even famed aviators who viewed the first showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and stamped her Spanish feet. One Kitty O'Connor gave cry with what seemed practically a baritone in her joyfully accepted rendition of the song hit, "We'll Have a New Home in the Morning...