Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the war D'Annunzio's famed exploits were those of a 17th-Century Great Lover who was also a 20th-century ace, adept at machine-gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
...Rudy Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...
...Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter...
STRANGERS-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...
...Crimson wishes to make the issue one of the honesty of the members of this committee, we are not adverse to meeting it on that basis. We have, however, been careful to keep our discussion on a plane of intelligence...