Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared with laughter at secret service men, stumbling through the mud, breathlessly trying to keep up with...
Last week the Washington Art Galleries announced an auction sale of M. Ghods's personal effects. Listed were 153 separate items, including 144,656 sq. ft. of Persian rugs and carpets, miniatures, manuscripts, brocades, silverware, paintings, etc., the rugs alone dutiable at $72,233.35. Customs men suddenly sprang to life...
When, in Paris, where his deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...
When the towering Scot, followed by his 6-ft. lady, stepped off the gangplank of the Strathmore, the white warships of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard...
...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...