Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...
Well-trained truffle pigs will lift the truffles, of which they are passionately fond, to the surface, leave them untouched while they grunt for their acorns. Young pigs get their first truffle-training from their mothers, beginning at the age of one month...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...
...Long Live the King!" Disembarking in a dismal drizzle Their Majesties acknowledged rousing shouts of "Lengi Lift Konungur Bor" ("Long Live Our King") from their Icelandic subjects while not a few of the thousand or more U. S. citizens present (mostly of Icelandic parentage or descent) shouted "Long live the King!" Few minutes afterwards the Swedish kust-pansarfartyg (coast-defense-ship) Oscar II landed H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Because a daughter has just been born to his wife, and because just before that their residence burned to the ground, H. R. H. Crown Prince Olav of Norway...
...Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms...