Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speedsters on the embankment might look out for that seemingly harmless police launch. It churned up the river and came up alongside a speed-merchant on the road in a brand-new V-8 the other night, and put the see on him. (What they call an octopus in trout's clothes). . . . Seems to us Ann Marster's experiment in playing the horses hasn't been too great a success. We've been noticing quite a few reports lately starting, 'Only picked one winner yesterday' Back to getting the dirt on Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently...
...with a two-fold purpose in mind that the "Princetonian", "Crimson" and "News" now launch an annual Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference on public affairs. Not only does such a movement serve the obvious requirement of stimulating undergraduate interest in the important questions of government today, but it also represents a significant development in the field of educational cooperation among these three institutions, whose common intellectual heritage demands a closer alliance than now exists...
Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...
Among those pulled to safety in the Pan American rescue launch were onetime Actress Claiborne Foster (Mrs. Maxwell Rice) and famed Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi, bound on a South American tour. In the melee someone trod violently on the musician's wrist. He announced sadly that he would not be able to play for several months...
...Mammy songs, have a warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson's hoarse, good-humored style of putting over a song as acceptable to cinemaddicts now as it was eight years ago when he used it to launch an era of enter tainment in the first talkie ever made, The Jazz Singer? Best songs: I Love to Singa, You're the Cure for What Ails Me by Jolson, and My, How This Country's Changed by the Yacht Club Boys...