Word: flyaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to 38-year-old Fred Jacoby Jr. Son of an outboard body builder (Jacoby Flyaway), Driver Jacoby has no peer among the fast-growing fraternity of rough riders who spend their summers bumping around U. S. waterways, kneeling in little, flat-bottomed boats they call flying shingles-with life preservers round their necks and a yapping whine in their ears. Professional Jacoby's total of 25,897 points† (in 20 regattas) this season was 10,000 more than his nearest rival (amateur or professional), and his feat of outscoring all other drivers this year for the third...
...lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...Yorkers remembered Klemperer for his height, for the flyaway gestures he used when he conducted the old New York Symphony in 1926 and 27. Those visits were brief, were no fair test. Back in Berlin he became director of the Berlin Staatsoper and six years later a martyr. Nazi youths pummeled him. When his contract had four years to run Adolf Hitler repudiated it because...