Word: motor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
...back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges...
...still a closely-watched prisoner in his Belvedere Castle, Herr Schuschnigg was being permitted the comfort of daily visits from his blonde, 34-year-old fiancee, Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whose talent for fine music was Schuschnigg's solace following the death of his wife in a motor crash three years ago. But he has few other liberties. "How could we let Schuschnigg go free now?" reasoned solicitous Nazi officials. "He probably would not be able to walk the streets for a minute without being attacked by a furious crowd. The world would then say the Nazis killed...
...airport in East Farmingdale, L. L. Captain Ugo V. D'Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
...fights and bombs going "Bon!" (Spanish equivalent for "Boom!"). Good sample of what war psychology means to a ten-year-old who knows high explosives better than he knows Dick Tracy was one drawing of an urban air raid in which war planes were carefully distinguished as tri-motor or single-motor jobs, small figures scurried for refuge stations. "Like bugs, poor darlings," said Mr. Weissberger...