Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normandie, lost in a fog...
Flavored with young love and London fog, furnished with an assortment of sweatered rogues talking Cockney out the sides of their mouths, the plot capers at the Bishop's gaitered heels as he discovers that the crime was planned by Hester (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Donald (Norman Foster) to "get back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian...
...plane flew o'er Alaska Above the ice and snow; The engine started missing The fog was hanging low. It lit upon the water With a mighty splash And when it tried to rise again There was an awful crash...
Month ago, the Cunard White Star liner Laurentic suffered a minor collision as she left England on a Mediterranean cruise, had to transfer her passengers to the Doric of the same line. Last week, this 16,484-ton vessel was churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued...
...everyone takes off under these conditions, someone will get killed," snorted Colonel Roscoe Turner, stamping about in a heavy Los Angeles fog one night last week. With eight other pilots, he was awaiting the start of the dangerous Bendix Trophy Race across the nation to Cleveland in the opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful...