Word: gondola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime favorite with song pluggers, the Waring band has made many tunes go strong, too (Collegiate, In My Gondola, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More, etc.). The pluggers used to clutter up Fred's Broadway office, but now Fred has a different arrangement. He meets them once a week for lunch in a Broadway Automat cafeteria, talks over their wares, matches them for the check...
...elevator in Paris' Hotel Meurice is frivolous. It looks as much like a gondola as an elevator can. Into it one evening last week stepped two aged Britons-Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. They alighted at an upper floor and proceeded to the suite of the man who used to be their King-Emperor, now His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor...
Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...famed case of the Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will...
...balloon cords; 2) explosives on the balloon cords; 3) a .22 calibre pistol. Before landing he used all three. Either the explosives or the gunfire set afire the balloons, which were inflated with hydrogen, and the balloonist barely managed to scramble down the tree before the gondola was enveloped in flames. Somewhat shaken but unhurt except for scratches and bruises, he sent a classic telegram to Mrs. Piccard, herself a stratosphere veteran: "Landed safely, Lansing, Iowa. Balloon under perfect control. All equipment burned...