Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn freight yard a priest gave extreme unction to Brakeman Richard O'Connell. He lay caught between a derailed switch engine and a 70-ton freight car. A wheel of the car held one foot; the other was wedged in the engine pilot board. If the engine backed away, he would be ripped as men rip legs off bullfrogs. If the car rolled towards him, he would be grated over the bars of the cowcatcher. So he sprawled there, content with the priest's ministrations, hopeful that the rescuing railroad men who were jacking...
Next day, since he chanced to be in London, Composer Honegger arranged with indulgent Britons to pilot a locomotive for some 20 miles. He returned from the adventure well nigh ecstatic, plunged at once into a symphonic composition which will take romantic music-lovers out of themselves and into a robust locomotive...
Thou Desperate Pilot. Zoe Akins, who loves the refined minority and wrote Declasse, offered this as first of a forthcoming series of plays. The title is derived from Romeo's line on suicide by poison.* Through the intricate entanglements of silken society, Zelda Beale (Miriam Hopkins), U. S. girl, is inveigled into accepting Louis Brant (Charles Henderson), although drawn by love to Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof...
...Thou desperate pilot now at once run on Thy dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...