Word: piper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tested separately on the water and in the air. For weeks, coupled together like giant dragon flies, they taxied over the Medway, off Rochester, Kent, finally flew locked together above Short Bros, big plant. One afternoon last week they took off again, Ace Test Pilots John Parker and Harold Piper at the controls of Maia and Mercury, respectively. At 700 ft., flying 140 m.p.h. with conditions perfect, Chief Pilot Parker telephoned up to Pilot Piper: "Is everything all right?" Then: "One, two, three, go." Thousands of Sunday strollers cheered as the two seaplanes separated, took different courses. Said Pilot Parker...
...Manhattan's 69th Street last week, in a white-tiled studio which was once a garage, a rangy man who looks a little like Abraham Lincoln and more like the Pied Piper ran his fingers through his long grey hair, folded his arms, grinned, yelled, gestured, strode to & fro, swung his spectacles. On this occasion Photographer Edward Steichen was not engaged in conjuring life out of some apathetic sitter. He was helping several assistants dismantle his studio for good. As of Jan. 1, 1938, Edward Steichen was through with commercial photography...
...pied piper of Hamelin was a dismal flop compared to the modern underworld radio show. One day four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher...
...Halff, Blaine. Adams: Williston. WINTHROP LOWELL Evans, l.e. l.e., Sullivan Cole, l.t. l.t., Litt Moore, l.g. l.g., Hunter Peters, c. c., Kelley Gilliland, r.g. r.g., Reppun Harris, r.t. r.t., Cotton Baumgarten, r.e. r.e., Kernan Starr, q.b. q.b., Murphy Peden, h.b. h.b., Call Stix, h.b. h.b., Rogers Hindle, f.b. f.b., Piper...
...lineups: ELIOT LOWELL Hunsaker l.e. l.e. Sullivan Uihlein l.t. l.t. Call Blaine l.g. l.g. Reppun Batchelder c. c. Kelley Preario r.g. r.g. Cotton Read r.t. r.t. Litt Levin r.e. r.e. Kernan Trope q.b. q.b. Murphy Oates f.b. f.b. Piper White l.h.b. l.b. Gooder Eaton r.b. r.b. Pinanski...