Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five of them got hold of one of the Spee's motor launches one night last week and tried to escape. They were captured after sunrise near the Spee's grave...
Last week, three days out of hospital after an operation for appendicitis, Eileen Herrick stole away from home, met George Lowther. Shepherded by a Daily News reporter, with two Daily News cameramen in attendance, they fled to Conway, N. H. by plane and motor. While rival newsmen gnashed their teeth in impotent rage, Romeo & Juliet wrote a happy ending (exclusive in the Daily News), were married at last...
...length we were joined by four other lifeboats which were towed by a small motor boat. Somebody shouted at me from one of these boats: "Have you seen my wife?" And then, and not till then, so selfish is man, did J realize how lucky I was to have no one to ask after, and what this ghastly business would mean to some...
...fend mine-laying planes away from the Thames estuary, the British moved their balloon barrage to sea. This they did by swinging motor trucks, from which the balloons are flown on long cables, aboard lighters which then were anchored offshore...
...skyscraper apartment in New York City's financial district, he slept in a bed powered with a motor to trundle him to the open air, organized a campaign to put down mosquitoes in Manhattan, pushed the fund-raising campaign that got floodlighting for the Statue of Liberty. At 58 he found time to marry 40-year-old Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, relict of an International Harvester official. He reputedly spent $250,000 on the Washington debut of his stepdaughter in the depth of Depression I. Sickly, he twice explained profitable sales of his Cities Service stock, once during...