Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...censors had not yet ruled that picture makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other...
...Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing, Sir Charles was two hours overdue. On what he asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge had left London on Wednesday for a "leisurely" trip home. When the single-motored monoplane reached Allahabad on Thursday, the flyers were scarcely three hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When...
...beaten, saved from worse tortures only because the commander wanted her for himself. Released by the commander's son, she joined Macedonian raiders who operated over the Bulgarian border, found herself with Todor Alexandrov, most famed and mysterious of Macedonian terrorists. During a wild, cross-country flight, in a lull between battles, he became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life of a professional conspirator. Slowly...
...play concerns the trials and tribunations of de Porceaugnsc who wants to marry a girl named Julie. When a rival frames de Pourceauguac as a bigamist, the lovers are only reunited after a flight from Paris...
...many occasions before this Captain Stevens has taken pictures of the curvature of the earth with the aid of infra red rays. In the hall of the Geographical Institute among a collection of his aerial pictures there is one example of the curvature. Pictures taken on this flight from such a great height should produce much better studies of this phenomenon...