Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing ice changes the air foil to such an extent that the wing no longer exerts a lifting power in forward motion. This trouble and decreased visibility due to fog or snow will bring down the best of pilots. The airmail route between Cleveland and New York is considered the worst in the country, with...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association held in New York on Sunday. Harvard was represented by H. W. Clark '23, assistant graduate manager of athletics, and J. D. Allen '31, manager of this year's foil men. Fourteen other colleges in the east sent their representatives to this conference, which was called to discuss proposed changes in the rules and to fix the date for the Intercollegiate meet...
Author Pettit is a sleek writer with a style naive and beguiling as his characters. He has a flair for provocative titles. His two previous books were called The Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pel Foil, The Son of the Grand Eunuch...
...foil Max, though miscast, lives down by capable work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra Mackay as Bianca, and Louise Piper as Hilda lift the play, but nothing like the way Ruth Bond Hill does, as Lona who spends the night before Anatol's nuptials to another chez Anatol...
...presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced...