Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used the phrase for the title of a book. Last week her fun consisted of flying blind through fog while she listened to musical broadcasts and exchanged witticisms with her husband by radio. Some 18 hours after the start of the 2,400-mile flight, she landed safely at Oakland, Calif, in her red Lockheed Vega monoplane. After powdering her nose and pushing back her tousled hair, Miss Earhart confided to newshawks that she felt "swell." Back in Honolulu Husband Putnam made better copy by saying: "Myself, I'd rather have a baby...
...this moment the Rev. Dr. Ilsley Boone, onetime minister of a Dutch Reformed church at Oakland, N. J.. stepped forward. Dr. Boone is executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference which publishes an illustrated "health" magazine called The Nudist...
...lamb pot pies were the last word in social depravity, a notable group of young Manhattan sporting gentlemen gathered one day at the Metropolitan Club. Outside stood a jet-black coach & four which was to carry them the 206 miles to Newport, there to play polo at Oakland, Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's big farm...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...
...such happenings seemed like shadow-boxing compared to the brawls in which the Guild found itself last week in Newark, Washington and Oakland, Calif...