Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second to none" boast a reality.) "To assemble the U. S. fleet for a period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games.) "To further the development of two main home bases on each coast." (That meant that, on the Atlantic, Norfolk and Narragansett Bay and, on the Pacific, Mare Island at San Francisco and Bremerton near Seattle would probably be developed as the major navy yards at the expense of other shore stations.) What made Secretary Swanson...
...grief, and in the same place- Indianapolis. One, piloted by Russell Thaw, 22, modest, handsome son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw, cracked up in landing for fuel. The other cracked up in taking off, mortally injuring its Pilot Russell Boardman. At Los Angeles, Jimmy Wedell won the main events of the next two days at 207 and 209 m.p.h. First mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot Gibson's plane cracked up as he rounded a pylon. He was not badly hurt. Chicago had hard luck. It had counted on Balbo's armada and the Spanish...
...first social event of the six-week Summer Session will take place in main dining room of the Harvard Union Monday evening, July 10, when a dinner preceded by a dance and an informal reception will introduce the students to members of the Faculty and to each other. The dance is open to all who present a bursar's receipt for the term bill which is due Monday...
After the dinner there will be an informal reception in the downstairs Common Room followed by the dance in the main room at 8.30 o'clock. Music will be provided by an eight piece orchestra from Boston, which has been secured for the occasion by W. A. Heaman, Steward of the Union. Dancing will last until 11 o'clock. In previous years large numbers have attended and the dance has been uniformly successful because of the fact that women constitute about 43 per cent of the enrollment. The Crimson plans tentatively to give a dance in the latter part...
...Ruggles- an expert comedian but no singer-in the character of a gentle bon vivant with a perpetual case of jitters. He embarks from Manhattan to San Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs,-''He Isn't the Marrying Kind" and "Isn't This a Night...