Word: gasbag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regularly as U. S. tennists once won and later, until this year, lost Davis Cup matches, U. S. balloonists once won and now lose the annual James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race-No. 1 gasbag event of the year. Last year they were too discouraged to enter. Last week, as the 25th James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race got under way in Brussels, there was again no U. S. entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from...
...This damned thing has gone nuts!" One day last week that remark was radioed down to Earth from a crippled balloon high in the stratosphere. It represented the supreme frustration of three army officers marooned in a purple-black sky at 60,000 ft. Their rubberized gasbag, biggest ever, yawned with an enormous...
...Soviet Army's stratostat U.S.S.R., largest balloon ever made, was finally ready last week in Moscow for a flight to the stratosphere. A morning fog had weighted the turnip-shaped gasbag with a heavy load of moisture; a drop in temperature had caused the hydrogen to contract. Nevertheless the crew of three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome...
First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole on Wimbledon Common and trying not to be caught...