Word: glides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, cannot think about such matters for a long time; he loves to contemplate more pleasant aspects of the problem. Gliding, for instance, is pleasant to think about and it depends on wind currents of all sorts. He has always wanted to glide, he has heard and read so much about the sport, and yet he has never actually seen anything bigger than a two-foot model. He knows somebody, however, who knows somebody who has done the most wonderful soaring at Elmira, staying up through his own skill and knowledge of air currents...
Appearing In Scotland at Balmoral Castle's annual Ghillie Ball, Great Britain's King George & Queen Elizabeth satisfactorily showed their democratic sovereignty by dancing for two hours among their shuffling, jostling tenants, taking a right royal try at the Palais Glide and the Lambeth Walk...
Slim as a lancet, her trim superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
...trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms, old-fashioned gardens with gazebos...
...course the vertical needle on the dial will waver to one side. If he is off the glide beam, the horizontal needle rises or falls...