Word: nods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill., and Private Harold L. Osborne was being borne aloft to make his final qualifying jump. Nervously he rehearsed his instructions to "bail out," to count to ten while he hurtled downward clear of the ship, then pull the ripcord of his 'chute. At a nod from the pilot of the plane, Private Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn back; so he reached for the steel ring above his heart and yanked...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...
...Thank you. I am very glad to have it," replied the President as with a characteristic little nod of his head he took the document. The Wet delegates then lined up and went filing past the President as he stood before his desk. The soft Hoover hand shook 534 times and 534 times the Hoover formula of welcome was repeated : "Very pleased to see you . . . very pleased to see you . . . very pleased...
Receivership for P. R. T. "Subservient directors who did the Mitten bidding at a glance or a nod, to the end that the nefarious schemes hatched at before-dawn breakfasts, might, in their opinion, have the stamp of legality," were denounced last week by Judge Harry S. McDevitt who thereupon ordered the Mitten-managed Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. into receivership. Mitten Management, Inc. is headed by Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, son of the late famed Thomas Eugene Mitten, transit expert...
...nod, while conversation...