Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou...
...errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...
...whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria, who is as sweet as the days are long." Stan reads them all, palavers to the regulars like an old school chum, has time for about 100 recordings a program...
Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
...tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function of the water was to moisten the sharp oxygen which...