Word: fluttered
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...evening three Lutheran pastors in white ties and black frock coats arrived. They were taken to the cell of Germany's most dangerous criminal, mild-mannered, flutter-fingered Peter Kuerten, "the Diisseldorf Fiend" (TIME...
...talkie Sunny Side Up Fox directors have been faced with the apparently impossible task of finding for Actress Janet Gaynor another role in which she would be able to give an equally profitable demonstration of her appealing sweetness and charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that he decides to pay her way through college...
...came over the Vagabond a few short days ago that a college year was dying. What was it old Omar said, "The Bird of term has but a little way to flutter?" And there came with his regret at seeing the old order changing, the wanderlust. He crammed his briar, swung his great grey Burberry around his shoulders, and was off. The old fellow strode along the banks of father Charles off which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening dews were falling. How long he walked...
...break up" in the air: wings and tail dropped off. All six occupants were killed (TIME, July 28). Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported from London the Air Ministry's finding, a newly discovered cause of crashes: "buffeting" of the tail unit, as opposed to "flutter...
...Flutter" is the name given to a rapid, rippling vibration which most commonly affects the unsupported wing of a monoplane, sometimes causing it to tear apart, but which at high speeds may affect the tail. Working with a model of the crashed plane, the investigators found it could not have flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...