Word: gears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
...trout season neared its close in Wisconsin. President Coolidge learned that trout feed by night as hungrily as in the daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train for Lewis, Wis., some 90 miles away, where lives Charles E. Lewis, Minneapolis broker. The Lewis estate on Seven Pines Creek, like the Pierce estate on the Brule, has its own trout hatcheries in spring-fed ponds. The Presidential catch was 137 (in two sessions). While the President fished, Mrs. Coolidge...
...Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...
...Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet of mast tumbled into the sea, carrying the heavy gear with...
...Everybody worked like beavers chopping away the gear and freeing the floating masts. Then we set up a low-rigged square sail which steadied the Rofa. The squall lasted 20 minutes and the weather was calmer for the rest of the day. As darkness began falling, we were aware that we had to get some assistance and we discharged six Very rockets...