Word: glides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profundity must smile, glide gently in, and, smiling, yield itself to the initiate alone - that is the esoteric of our art. For the people, gay pictures; for the cognoscenti the mystery behind...
...shops of Paris and New York are sensationally different. In America surroundings are designed to soothe and glide and lull you into easy buying. Every size, every shade, every age catered for-but God help you if you should want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still...
...dust storm. Lieut. Harold Neely eased his ship out of the sudden dusk and up to 11,000 feet, where the air was clear. Noting that the gasoline gauge was low, he turned on an auxiliary tank. Both motors spat, stopped. The plane nosed into a slow, singing glide. Pilot Neely peered down at the billowing, blinding sea of dust between him and the ground. Small indeed were his chances of landing safely. On the plane's interphone he spoke an order to another lieutenant, a corporal and a private in a rear compartment: Jump...