Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened to many a plane in Hell's Angels when Howard Hughes was putting an inherited fortune made from oil-well drills into movies instead of aviation, this foolproof ocean-spanning plane had been forced down, that contingency was provided for, too. Aboard were two inflatable rubber rafts, with stocks of water, "nose cups" to condense breath into emergency water supply, concentrated rations, a can opener. To inflate the rafts there were cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when...
Solicitor Mitchell said he had offered the Count $250,000 as a gesture-a "settlement for life." When the Count said $250,000 was "laughable and an insult," Solicitor Mitchell countered: "I wish somebody would insult me." Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted...
Since Sitting Bull ambushed Custer by the Little Big Horn in 1876, Montana has had few major disturbances. But this year Montana's jutting peaks and high, scarred badlands, from Custer Creek to Hell Gate Canyon, have been acting up. Last January a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr shook off part of its tail structure, plummeted into Bridger Canyon, bringing ten persons to death. Last month the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
Meanwhile, he was developing such an ear for southern speech that when a hitchhiker said, "I shore do thank ye," Author Daniels thought he must be a novelist in disguise. It sounded more natural when a Cherokee Indian playing a slot machine exclaimed, "Hell, it's a gyp," still more natural when a home-loving Tennessean, standing on a hilltop in his undershirt, told him proudly, "There are not many places like this one. ... I never could figure out what I went for, ex cept maybe I was young and wanted to see the world...