Word: mid-air
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...Antaeus, giant son of Poseidon the sea god, was invincible so long as he kept in contact with his mother, the Earth. Hercules killed Antaeus by lifting him off the ground and strangling him in mid-air...
...spreads himself on Broadway, has designed the costumes for such hit musicals as Oklahoma!, Carousel, High Button Shoes, Bloomer Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hazel Flagg. For this year's circus. White went full-out on four huge production numbers: an aerial ballet featuring 60 girls suspended in mid-air playing Indian Love Call on little glockenspiels, a horsy period piece called "Derby Day Honeymoon," a red, white & blue finale with the expansive title, "Americana, U.S.A.," and the main spectacle-"Candy Land" (see sketches opposite...
Dean Moser said "the idea is definitely is mid-air,' but added that it was a reasonable request and "possible if enough girls commit themselves by next year." At the French Club meeting, only three or four girls said they were interested...
...which Villalba stoutly refused to commit U.R.D. assembly members against a boycott until after a party convention in January, secret police seized the six men at the minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D. assembly members left in Venezuela would dare stand up to Pérez Jiménez after such...
...staff of the Cleveland Press as a copy boy in 1929, a few days before the market crash. Later, as a reporter, he covered the 1933 bank holiday, the Bonus Army's march, the Little Steel strike and the shooting of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and he survived a mid-air collision at the National Air Races. He covered World War II as a correspondent. He has interviewed, among others, Lord Halifax, Earl Browder, Newton D. Baker, Clarence Darrow, John Barrymore and Gertrude Stein, who told him "a newspaperman is too immediate to be immediate...