Word: floats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real man abdicate a thousand thrones, and reject a thousand crowns? With her love as his own, might not such a man take her in his arms and bear her away to some palatial, ornately festooned raft, lying on the ever undulating, billowing bosom of the mighty waters-and float, float: and love, and love, in idyllic charm among fragrant balmy zephyrs of the unnumbered coralline islands of the South Seas, in a blissful heavenly Heaven, forever, and forever...
...onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself to a dancing class, picked out 15-year-old Dolores Volk, crowned her Colorado's "1936 Onion Set Queen." Queen Volk, who lives with her mother in Greeley, Colo., donned a set of onion sets, posed without benefit of throne, float or clothes in Onionman Barteldes' broad black acres...
Elimination did not stop when the race began. Gar Wrood's Northrop Gamma, with Pilot Joe Jacobsen alone aboard, lost a wing as it was streaking across Kansas. Thrown free, Pilot Jacobsen was knocked unconscious, came to just in time to pull his ripcord, float safely to earth as his plane caught fire, exploded...
...forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano, as a matter of popular expediency, advised that King Alfonso's red, yellow and red Bourbon banner be permitted to float over the Revolution in the south...
Premier Blum heartily wished Spain would float away to some other planet while the French Chamber of Deputies adjourned and the Bank of France was reorganized, but he and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos had to do something about Spain and kept pressing upon the Great Powers their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some...