Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afrikaners are taking Schumann's scheme seriously. The tall, bearded potential rain maker studied and taught at Yale and other U.S. and German universities, last year got an award from the Royal Meteorological Society of London for his studies of fogs on airdromes. Last week Capetown's City Council was pondering putting up $1,000,000 for the rainmaking apparatus...
Bombardier Mike Arpaia yelled "Bombs away!" over the interphone, and followed it with a sigh of relief that came all the way from his fleece-lined boots. The Flying Fortress Mischief Maker was riding 20,000 feet over Reims airdrome and, even as Mike's bombs were thundering into the hangars and repair shops crammed with German planes, heavy gray clouds were closing in and blotting out the field...
...tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they saw the lead plane's bombs go, bombardiers in the other Forts tripped the switches and toggled their own bombs. Arpaia turned control back to Iverson with a laconic "You've got it," and that was that...
Hitler's Children cost only $175,000 to make and was the biggest low-budget money-maker in screen history until Behind the Rising Sun (cost: $210,000) outshone it by covering production costs in New England alone. In any normal year only a very few expensive films will gross as much as $3,000,000. Gross estimates on each of RKO's two sleepers, for the first time in screen history, run anywhere from...
...Ballad Maker. Critic Eliot suggests that, before judging Kipling, it is well to make sure that you know what he was trying to do. "Kipling," Eliot believes, "was not trying to write poetry at all." He was a writer of verse which often, but always incidentally, came to life as poetry, as in " 'ark to the fifes a-crawlin'." He was a ballad maker, using that most ancient form of art and journalism brilliantly to impart truth and emotion. He was devoted not to the poem as poem, the verse as verse, but always, and utterly...