Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since popular little Princess Elizabeth, favorite grandchild of the late King George, would become Queen Elizabeth upon the death of the King and her father the Duke of York who frequently fly in the same plane, readers of the London Sunday Times conned with interest last week an account of the education now projected for Her Royal Highness. According to the Sunday Times she will continue to study at home under Miss Crawford and other tutors because "there is the difficulty of choosing a suitable school without causing great jealousy." "Another Queen Elizabeth on the Throne," continued the Sunday Times...
...members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg Clericals appeared to have such a stranglehold on Austria that Chancellor Schuschnigg dared to leave Vienna, hopped at 6 a. m. into a plane which flew him to Budapest in time for the funeral and a scowl from bulbous, bemedaled General Goring...
Last week, tired of the delay, the Tidningen-Dagblad suddenly withdrew its backing. Behind the Baroness's back, Pilot Bjorkvall bought the plane himself...
...permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos...
...more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during a bombing of London...