Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atholl, the only peer in Britain entitled to own a private army, led the way at the head of a troop of Scottish Horse on shaggy Highland ponies. The joggling troops wore the same khaki uniforms, slouch hats and black cocks' feathers worn in 1903 during the post-coronation visit of Edward VII. From Edinburgh Castle on its crag above the city 21 guns roared in royal salute...
...route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle suddenly shouted. "Look out; there comes another plane." His pilot swerved sharply upward, just in time to avoid a collision. For "covering" the Coronation of King George VI for Publisher J. David Stern (Philadelphia Record, New York Evening Post, etc.), Mrs. Huberta Potter Earle last week received $450, first money she ever earned, gave it to the Philadelphia Children's Heart Hospital...
There was trouble at Rajpore, an army post on the Afghan border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith...
...Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton...
...that insurance companies have been known to cut their premiums 50% on a new plane if he is to test-fly it. Last winter Tomlinson made constant trips to the substratosphere in the single-motored Gamma. Devil-may-care as ever, he spurned any such oxygen suit as Wiley Post wore, merely bundled up warmly, stuck an oxygen tube in his mouth. Says he: "I don't know what it may do to me eventually. Doctors say it may kill me, but I reckon not. I have to build up to each flight by drinking lots of milk...