Word: pinwheels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propeller motor pulls the autogiro across a flying field the forward motion sets the vanes revolving swiftly, like a great pinwheel. As they turn they create a lifting surface equivalent to a standard plane's wings...
...first time he had ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...
Said the New York Evening Post, "Take the fuselage of an ordinary airplane, stick into its sides a pair of garden spades, with the handles into the plane; put on the nose a propeller slightly smaller than the ordinary airplane propeller, and you have the autogyro, except for the pinwheel...
...presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled, saxophones clucked and gurgled during 16 scenes. A "Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy...
...plays in prospect, the all-star revival of "Trelawney of the Wells," Martin Brown's "The Dark" (tried out in Boston last year), and the Neighborhood Playhouse's production of "Pinwheel" seems to be most promising, with the last being the most likely to be fine...