Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph Bellamy to sell out his tottering independent line that they hire an inventor with a plane-destroying ray to wreck Bellamy planes. Several pilots, screaming unpleasantly, have fallen in flames before Bellamy finds out about the ray machine and bombs it to pieces. Everything is cleared up at the end except the chastity of Miss Tala Birell. Not that anything is wrong, but the tone of voice...
...Indianapolis, trying to arrest three blind men, Rex Overman, Charles Bennett and Ray Johnson, who had gotten drunk in a hotel room with two women, police had their faces clawed, broke one blind man's head open...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...
...Drury boat had only one shift made in the seatings when Coach Charlie Whiteside decided that Larry Mills, who pulled the bow oar in Monday's workout, would return to the third boat and that Ray Clark would come from Cutler's boat to take his place. In the Cutler shell he moved Haskins from bow to three to fill up the hole left by Clark and took up Rantoul from the Scott eight to fill the Haskins vacancy at bow. The thirds he left unchanged except for the return of Mills to the number one sweep...
...much mud has been thrown at the blue coated protectors of the peace that I feel obligated to cast this ray of sunshine upon their erstwhile black countenances...