Word: helmeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This he promptly did. His father gave him a part in a curtain-raiser, cast as Paris, but Sacha stayed overlong reading a new play, was late, lost his wig and appeared on the stage half in costume, out of breath, his helmet dropping down over his eyes and ears. As Helen's welcoming words were, "Here comes my beautiful Paris!" the cast burst into laughter, began to ad lib, until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines...
...brisk business with Italy. According to Capital observers, if the Presidential definition of "implements of war" were enlarged to its logical boundaries to include such raw materials, Washington would become a pandemonium of log rolling, back-scratching and lobbying which would knock the neutrality program into a cocked helmet...
...biggest agencies in the country, that had the most incredible mistakes so far as the polo background was concerned: the noble steed shown was some curious kind of saddle horse, the tack might have come as a premium for Spratt's dog food, the helmet was an invention of the artist, the sideboards had posts on the inside of the field, and so forth...
...ordered hot dogs and settled down to watch the race. Three minutes later another car, going at 108 m.p.h., crashed into the concrete barrier at almost the same spot as the Weatherly crash. Driver Al Gordon, pinned under the wreck, was pulled out alive with his steel helmet ground paper-thin against the wall. For the first 250 miles, the youngest driver in the field, Rex Mays of Los Angeles, who won the pole position for his record-breaking qualifying trial, set the pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last...
Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...