Word: piggybacks
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...soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...
Sally Rand rode piggyback into Los Angeles' marriage license bureau aboard groom-to-be Thurkel Greenough, rodeo-boy. Both were promptly served with summonses in the ex-Mrs. Greenough's suit for $100-a-month maintenance...
Through his uncouth boorishness shines the "tendresse" that made, and permeates, the whole picture. The priest who retrieves the sinful wife on piggyback, and the wine, women and horse-loving marquis fill the gaps in whatever there is of social parody. Somehow "The Baker's Wife" leaves you with the impression that perhaps Dr. Goebbels has not seen all of France...
...comparatively few people in the U. S. who are in a hurry to fly across the Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island...
...English have no notion of using piggyback planes in regular transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...