Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour after the night shift of workers had finished printing the Yale Daily New, also published by the Van Dyke Company, flames broke out on the ground floor of the printing plant and soon had enveloped the entire old structure, which is located at 123 Oliver Street. At the height of the configuration the side walls caved in under the weight of heavy machinery on the second floor and it is believed that only one wall remained standing when the blaze was finally extinguished through the combined efforts of every fire company in the city. Nine of the fire fighters...
Some day, graft charges against municipal officials may accumulate above ground, perhaps in connection with airports or chutes for rockets to the moon. For the present, sewers are the conventional source of civic turpitude. Last fortnight's effluvia from the sewers of Queens, a Borough of New York City, were characteristic of a predominant type of big-city government...
...interest accruing to the national welfare by his flights is worth the calamitous crash of principal which would accompany his death. Col. Lindbergh is the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt. Thought they: "He is worth keeping." One way to keep him is to keep him on the ground...
...Devil Dancer, in the remote stamping ground of the lamas,* is not a native Mongolian but the child of an unfortunate white woman. She, Takla, on reaching maturity, is discovered by an English explorer who takes her rapidly away to India. Here Takla is not a success. Her social value becomes so low that the sister of the explorer, hearing that he intends to marry his discovery, has her kidnapped by an immoral blackman. Only the extraordinary resourcefulness of the scenario writer makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama...
Died. Adolphe Valery Coco, 70, one-time (1916-1924) Attorney General of Louisiana, intrepid investigator of the Mer Rouge slayings (1922) involving Ku Klux Klan. It was he who once, unarmed, defended a prisoner from a mob by drawing a line on the ground with his cane and saying: "The first person who crosses that line I kill...