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Numerous milder adventures were experienced by pilots of a hundred or more Miami-bound planes who encountered various brands of dirty weather. Of 24 members of the Amateur Air Pilots' Association who left Long Island Aviation Country Club in cavalcade three days before the meet began, only two?George Mallory Pynchon Jr. and Paula Lind? arrived on the opening day. The others were scattered, fogbound, between Sarasota, Fla. and Richmond, Va. Twenty attack planes from Fort Crockett, Tex., were still at Tallahassee on the second day of the races. A Boiling Field contingent was turned back by fog over South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Miami Show & Sideshows | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until his bullet-spattered body is dumped in front of his mother's house. His more sentimental pal, Edward Woods, provides a milder development of the same theme. The Public Enemy is well-told and its intensity is relieved by scenes of the central characters slugging bartenders and slapping their women across the face. U. S. audiences, long trained by the Press to glorify thugs, last week laughed loudly at such comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...past winter, milder than most, permitted buffalo gnats to breed in the streams, hitherto too cold for them. Therefore, after 20 years of immunity, the lower Mississippi valley is suffering again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Plague of Females | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet. But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated. When John and his brother Charles got religion they took it hard, in a day when godliness was milder than measles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairly Open Conspirator* | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...were taught to squeeze His legs in breeks as short as these, And boldly show his valiant knees, Be those well-clad or bony, Do you suppose this might impart A milder mood, a change in heart, A love of Literature and Art, To Scarface Al Caponel...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: "SHORTS" CAMPAIGN, NOW DORMANT, WILL AGAIN BE PURSUED NEXT SPRING | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

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