Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...
...same two series as 1937-Master and Master Deluxe. Major mechanical change: new-type clutch based on a diaphragm principle used in heavy-duty railroad couplings but never before in automobiles, said to be more rugged, lighter, easier to operate, engaging more uniformly. The body has a redesigned hood, larger luggage compartment...
...first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille in a pronounced "widow's peak." The new standard is more like the 1937 type, but has greater flow in lines. Both cars have the same chassis. The de luxe comes in eight body types, the standard in three...
Bishop Hobson donned his heavy black satin chimere, white puff-sleeved rochet, stole and academic hood in a private room along with the Church's Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, Bishop Joseph Marshall Francis of Indiana, Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California. All the bishops looked and felt hot, for the day was unseasonably muggy. In Nippert Stadium to watch the procession to the great altar were but 10,000 people, half the number for whom host Bishop Hobson's committee had provided transportation...