Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody in particular was blamed for the theft and University officials seemed to regard the occurrence as a regular harbinger of spring, on the same plane with the cry of "Rinehart...
...when the Potomac steamed into Nassau Harbor escorted by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale, Franklin Roosevelt had doffed his seagoing shorts and sweat shirt, had decorously attired himself in slacks and a gabardine sport coat to receive his guests. When press and secretaries soared in aboard a Pan-American plane, they found Franklin Roosevelt on the quarter-deck of the Potomac entertaining his guests, the Governor General and Lady Clifford (nee Gundry of Cleveland); Sir George Johnson, President of the Bahamian Legislative Council; U. S. Consul Frank A. Henry & Wife...
...Colonel Phillips, who is a sedulous hunter, a determined Republican and a firm believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Mr. Chrysler lost. Lately the Colonel...
...Seattle last week, having traveled southward 2,000 miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges...
...Diego, Calif., Florence (''Tanya") Cubitt, 20, lissome, blonde employe of the California Pacific International Exposition's Midway nudist colony, won national notoriety by the simple device of telling newshawks, before she got on a plane in Los Angeles, that when she got out at Chicago she would be naked "to advance the cause of nudism." Chicago cameramen mobbed the plane, were chagrined when Miss Cubitt emerged fully dressed. She hastened to explain that the plane's pilots and stewardess had forced her to keep her clothes on. However, she promised to be naked when she landed...